EMERYVILLE, Calif. (AP) - Authorities have identified a mysterious bicyclist as the suspect in a fire that gutted an unfinished $35 million building complex in Emeryville.
The San Francisco Chronicle (https://bit.ly/2r7L4q2 ) says authorities on Thursday released grainy surveillance camera photos of a man wearing a hooded sweatshirt and a backpack as he rode near the building on May 13.
The developer says he somehow got past two armed guards and a dozen surveillance cameras.
The fire near the city’s border with Oakland was the second arson blaze to gut the half-finished retail and apartment complex in 10 months.
Authorities didn’t name the biker as a suspect in the first fire or suggest a motive for the arson attacks.
Rewards totaling $100,000 are being offered for information leading to arrests in both fires.
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