San Jose: Girl arrested Monday on suspicion of arson, homicide

SAN JOSE — Police arrested a lady Monday on suspicion of homicide and arson for allegedly setting hearth to a industrial constructing with an worker inside, authorities stated.

Yessenia Estrada, a 35-year-old resident of San Jose, allegedly began the second-alarm blaze early Sunday morning, in keeping with a press launch from the San Jose Police Division. Authorities situated a deceased individual within the burned constructing Monday. The sufferer’s identification had not been launched by the Santa Clara County Coroner’s Workplace on the time of this writing.

Yessenia Estrada, a 35-year-old resident of San Jose, was arrested Monday on suspicion of arson and homicide for allegedly setting hearth to a industrial constructing with an worker inside, in keeping with the San Jose Police Division. (San Jose Police Division) 

Simply earlier than 4 a.m. Sunday, police and firefighters responded to experiences of a fireplace at a industrial constructing on the 200 block of North twenty seventh Avenue, authorities stated. Preliminary experiences stated {that a} fence was on hearth and the blaze was extending to the roof of the two-story construction, stated Jake Pisani, public data supervisor for the San Jose Fireplace Division.

The blaze was upgraded to a primary alarm hearth at 4:01 a.m. and a second alarm hearth at 4:04 a.m., Pisani stated. The primary engine that arrived on scene described the hearth as “a large fully involved structure with multiple exposures,” he added. The hearth was knocked down at 6:06 a.m.

Upon their arrival, police discovered that the hearth was doubtless attributable to arson, SJPD stated.

An preliminary investigation discovered that an worker who was regarded as contained in the construction on the time of the hearth was unaccounted for, however a search couldn’t initially be performed due to structural instability, authorities stated. Estrada was recognized because the suspect, and officers acquired a warrant for her arrest.

The incident was collectively investigated by San Jose Fireplace Division arson investigators and SJPD murder officers, police stated.

Employees author Rob Salonga contributed to this report.