{"id":1480252,"date":"2024-07-29T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1480252"},"modified":"2024-07-29T20:40:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T00:40:00","slug":"apache-indian-named-keanu-dude-arrested-for-causing-a-massive-wildfire-by-burning-the-american-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/apache-indian-named-keanu-dude-arrested-for-causing-a-massive-wildfire-by-burning-the-american-flag\/1480252\/","title":{"rendered":"Apache Indian Named &#8220;Keanu Dude&#8221; Arrested For Causing A Massive Wildfire By Burning The American Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Apache Indian Named &#8220;Keanu Dude&#8221; Arrested For Causing A Massive Wildfire By Burning The American Flag<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Well, here&#8217;s a story we can safely say you&#8217;ve likely never heard before.<\/p>\n<p>An Apache Indian named &#8220;Keanu Dude&#8221; has been accused of starting a massive wildfire in the state of Arizona&#8230;by setting fire to the American flag.<\/p>\n<p>The wildfire eventually burned over 2,200 acres, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/07\/26\/us-news\/tribesman-keanu-dude-accused-of-starting-wildfire-by-burning-us-flag\/\">report by the New York Post<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dude was arrested Tuesday for allegedly starting the Watch Fire, the report says. The Post wrote the fire &#8220;burned 3.4 square miles, destroyed 21 homes, and forced over 400 people to evacuate reservation land before being contained last week, officials said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Screenshot%202024-07-28%20at%204.42.31%E2%80%AFPM.jpg?itok=RM40Sq3W\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was seen burning an American flag just before the wildfire started, according to the tribe&#8217;s police chief, <em><strong>Elliot Sneezy,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>who did not provide a motive, the report said, citing Arizona Family.<\/p>\n<p>San Carlos Apache Tribe Chairman Terry Rambler commented:\u00a0\u201cIt saddens me deeply that a member of our Tribe has been charged with starting this fire that devastated our community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArson is a senseless act that will never be tolerated under any circumstance. I am thankful for the swift and thorough investigation by tribal and federal law enforcement that has resulted in an arrest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/07\/26\/us-news\/tribesman-keanu-dude-accused-of-starting-wildfire-by-burning-us-flag\/\">wrote<\/a> that Dude was &#8220;unemployed&#8221; and &#8220;has a criminal record&#8221;. Go figure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/Screenshot%202024-07-28%20at%204.45.28%E2%80%AFPM.jpg?itok=DNUhR1fk\">Dude, where&#8217;s your motive?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It added that\u00a0no information was released about Dude&#8217;s possible motive for starting the July 10 fire, which took a week to contain and led to a state of emergency east of Phoenix. The fire damaged power lines, causing an outage, and injured several animals, killing at least one pet.<\/p>\n<p>Rambler concluded:\u00a0\u201cWhile thankfully no one was injured, many face extreme hardship, losing their homes and all their possessions and were left with only the clothes on their back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is imperative that everyone in our Tribe work together to overcome this criminal act and rebuild our community stronger and better than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Mon, 07\/29\/2024 &#8211; 16:40<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/apache-indian-named-keanu-dude-arrested-causing-massive-wildfire-burning-american-flag\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/apache-indian-named-keanu-dude-arrested-causing-massive-wildfire-burning-american-flag<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apache Indian Named &#8220;Keanu Dude&#8221; Arrested For Causing A Massive Wildfire By Burning The American Flag Well, here&#8217;s a story we can safely say you&#8217;ve&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1480253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1480252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1480252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}