The two New Jersey -Teen’s who are accused of having set up the devastating Wildfire of Jones Road that, according to the authorities, initially broke more than 15,000 hectares, De Blaze blamed Mexicans.
Joseph Kling, 19, and his 17-year-old co-suspect would both have lied to agents when they were interviewed about the fire of the oceanting and their potential connection with it.
Ultimately, researchers were able to determine Kling and his not aforementioned teenager complicit reportedly intentionally set wood pallets set on fire on April 22, Then run away.
Both Kling and the teenager “gave wrong information to law enforcement about how the fire started.”
They both blamed the fire of Mexicans they said they had seen in the forest just before the fire started, The Asbury Park Press reported.
Both defendants are held in police detention.
The second teenager was arrested on Thursday and accused of aggravated arson and obstructing fear.
Kling is accused of aggravated arson, arson and obstructing fear.
The Asbury Park Press reported that researchers searched the telephones from the suspect and found chats who “refuted the claim that Mexicans started the fire”, officers of justice said in court on Friday.
Detectives have interviewed witnesses that Klinging and the other teenager called those who started the fires.
Like Saturday, the Wildfire of Jones Road was almost 80%.
A lawyer for Kling told a judge on Friday that his client was not going to cause a huge forest fire.
