The suspicious hiker who gave some weird solutions to a involved Topanga resident was questioned and arrested by police … at the very least in accordance with the man who confronted him.
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We tracked down the Topanga man who recorded his interplay with the hiker and he joined us on “TMZ Live” Wednesday … telling us the man caught out like a sore thumb and raised a ton of pink flags.
The resident says his neighborhood is fairly tight-knit, so that they know everybody … and this man was clearly not a neighborhood.
The hiker was on a hearth highway and was carrying a backpack, which set off alarm bells for the resident … as a result of the confrontation went down amid the primary few days of the Palisades Hearth, which ravaged components of Malibu and Topanga.
When the hiker, unprompted, stated he did not have any lighter fluid on him, the resident grew to become much more suspicious … and he says he despatched the man within the path of some firefighters he hoped would possibly choose up the man.
Seems like regulation enforcement ultimately caught up with the hiker … we all know the county sheriff’s division noticed the video, and the resident says he is been instructed the hiker was arrested and questioned by cops.
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There are arson issues concerned with these fires and the resident says there have been too many pink flags to not ask questions.
He additionally tells us there was no bodily confrontation when he put the telephone down … and he is glad his youngsters had been with him, in any other case this might have gotten ugly.
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