Validating what many in the area assumed from the beginning, suspicion for starting the fire has fallen on a homeless illegal camper in the area of the Parkway struggling with this problem for years, with little help from public leadership.
Arrest a break in probe of trestle fire?
Officials say man lied about where he was when trestle burned.
By Denny Walsh - Bee Staff Writer
Published 12:00 am PDT Tuesday, August 21, 2007
A Salvadoran national in the United States illegally is the subject of an ongoing federal investigation and is under indictment for allegedly lying about his whereabouts at the time of the March 15 blaze that destroyed the Union Pacific Railroad trestle along the American River Parkway, a federal prosecutor confirmed Monday.
In order to keep José Eduardo Moran-Marques, who is homeless, from disappearing while the investigation continued, he was arrested as a vagrant and then rearrested by federal authorities on May 18 on a charge of re-entering the United States illegally after being deported on Aug. 1, 2003.
