Utah man arrested for setting 4 Oregon wildfires

I worked with this guy about a year and a half ago. He was living in Portland at the time.

Its crazy that he did this considering we talked a lot about hiking the PCT and he use to take the bus up to Mt Hood to paint easel and canvas style. Always talking about the outdoors.

He also showed some true signs of crazy. We worked in a small call center room cold calling lawyers trying to sign them up for a free trial and sample of SEO services for lawyers so there would be 4 of us in a small room on headsets. He got it into his head that he thought this one woman was calling his family members cause he heard her saying his family members names while she was calling lawyers. I think his dads name was Richard which is pretty damn common among lawyers. He flipped out on her and made a big scene but they didnt fire him because he was putting up good numbers.

He got real weird towards the end and was really fixated on this woman who he thought was calling his family. He even said he thought she had gone by his house and put a halloween skull on his porch. (His house being a rented room in a big house with a lot of other roommates in close in southeast)

There was other examples of his weirdness and some legit times it really seemed like he was off his meds but its hard to remember specifics now but after they finally fired/he quit type of situation i remember being pretty worried cause he seemed like the type to come back and shoot the place up and there was no escape from our room that we called out of besides the door and trying to jump through a very thick two story window.

Any way just felt like letting that out after seeing his name and picture and charges

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