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mr40, Sonoma sheriff shoots down right-wing reports linking arson suspect to wine country fires

By Ryan Sabalow
October 17, 2017 12:35 PM

The arrest of a 29-year-old Latino man this weekend on suspicion of starting a small fire in California’s scorched wine country ignited a firestorm of its own on right-wing media sites whose articles linked him – without evidence – to the catastrophic fires that have killed at least 28 people in the area.

Sonoma County Sheriff Rob Giordano forcefully shot down the allegations at a press conference Tuesday afternoon.

“There is a story out there that he’s the arsonist in these fires,” Giordano said. “That’s not the case. There’s no indication he’s related to these fires at all. ... I wanted to kill that speculation right now, so we didn’t have things running too far out of control.”

Right-wing websites including Breitbart .. http://www.breitbart.com/california/2017/10/17/ice-detainer-issued-for-suspected-wine-country-arsonist-in-sonoma-jail/ .. and InfoWars .. https://www.infowars.com/ice-detainer-issued-for-suspected-wine-country-arsonist-in-sonoma-jail/ .. Tuesday each published stories on the Sunday arrest of Jesus Fabian Gonzalez, whom sheriff’s deputies arrested on a single count of arson.

http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/fires/article179322896.html

On the evidence so far your story is a sick attempt at fake news. Any attempt to make political hay out of such a tragedy is a sick move.

You oughta know before now that anything from those two sites must be treated with extreme caution.