Police on Friday released the booking photo of a 29-year-old man suspected of setting a fire that engulfed and gutted an over 1-million-square-foot warehouse in Ontario earlier in the week.
Chamel Abdulkarim, a resident of Highland, was booked on suspicion of felony arson of a structure and aggravated arson following Tuesday’s fire that destroyed the sprawling Kimberly-Clark warehouse near South Hellman Avenue and Merrill Avenue.
The warehouse was used to store paper products such as Kleenex, Cottonelle toilet paper and Scott paper towels when it went up in flames around 12:30 a.m. No one was injured in the fire, but the warehouse and everything inside were destroyed.
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Abdulkarim reportedly worked for NFI Industries, a third-party company that works with Kimberly-Clark to store and distribute products.
He was initially reported as missing during the fire but was later suspected of starting the blaze. He was quickly located and taken into custody by Ontario police…