ORANGE COUNTY, CA-Today at approximately 11:45 am, deputies and the OCFA were dispatched to El Toro High School in Lake Forest regarding a fire in the bed of a truck in the parking lot. When deputies and the OCFA arrived, witnesses told them a man stopped near a student’s car and set fire to two American flags that were displayed in the truck bed. The suspect then left the scene, and a license plate number was captured on the school’s surveillance video. A deputy on patrol in the area observed the car and conducted a stop. The suspect admitted to the arson and was taken into custody. The suspect, Benjamin Bauch, 29 years old from Mission Viejo, will be booked into Orange County Jail on two felony counts and one misdemeanor count of arson. No one was injured and the investigation is ongoing.
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