Oct. 16 (UPI) -- A federal grand jury has indicted Jonathan Rinderknecht, the 29-year-old man accused of causing the fatal Palisades Fire in January, on two additional felony charges.
Rinderknecht was arrested on Oct. 7 and charged with one count of destruction of property by means of fire.
On Wednesday, the Justice Department announced in a statement that a grand jury had indicted him on two additional counts of arson affecting property used in interstate commerce and setting timber set afire.
Rinderknecht, a former resident of the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles who has been in police custody since Oct. 7, is accused of being responsible for the Palisades Fire, one of the worst wildfires in California history, which killing a dozen people and burning more than 23,000 acres.
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