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GOLDEN, Colo. — A antheral accused of intentionally mounting a brushwood occurrence on Highway 74 successful Jefferson County, Colorado, was arrested Monday arsenic firefighters crossed the Four Corners portion grapple with aggregate wildfires.
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A antheral accused of intentionally mounting a brushwood occurrence on Highway 74 successful Jefferson County, Colorado, was arrested Monday arsenic firefighters crossed the Four Corners portion grapple with aggregate wildfires. (jeffcosheriffco/X)
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A antheral accused of intentionally mounting a brushwood occurrence on Highway 74 successful Jefferson County, Colorado, was arrested Monday arsenic firefighters crossed the Four Corners portion grapple with aggregate wildfires. (jeffcosheriffco/X)
According to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, aggregate witnesses reported seeing a antheral lasting implicit a occurrence connected the southbound broadside of the highway.
As deputies responded to the fire, they said they located a fishy adjacent that matched eyewitness descriptions.
Body camera video shows constabulary arresting 25-year-old Ben Royce Johnson portion different serviceman rushed to combat the flames with a occurrence extinguisher until firefighters could get and wholly sound down the blaze.
The Aspen Acres Wildfire broke retired successful Pueblo County, Colorado, connected June 29, 2026.
(Pueblo County Sheriff's Office / FOX Weather)
This comes arsenic the full portion grapples with unsafe occurrence weather.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis issued a verbal catastrophe declaration connected Monday owed to the Aspen Acres Fire, which has present destroyed implicit 150 buildings and injured a firefighter crossed Pueblo and Custer counties.
Suspect Arrested successful Connection with Intentional Brush Fire Along Highway 74
At astir 4:46 p.m. connected June 29, 2026, Jefferson County Sheriff's deputies responded to a study of a antheral intentionally mounting occurrence to brushwood adjacent mile marker 16 connected State Highway 74.
Multiple witnesses… pic.twitter.com/i5YPMKJd4T
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