Police Seek Man on Nationwide Warrant

A La Puebla man, who allegedly twice set fire to the house he shared with his mother, is wanted on a nationwide warrant charging him with two counts of arson.

The house burned twice on Nov. 7 and Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Detective Ian Burr sought an arrest warrant for Harvey Arellano, 40, three days later, on Nov. 10.

Burr wrote in an affidavit for an arrest warrant that Arellano is believed to have set fire to the home in two separate parts of the house in the morning, then came back to the house that evening, after firefighters left, and set it on fire a second time, evidenced by surveillance footage showing a man fleeing from the house after a “large burst of fire occurred in the residence.”…

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