The Brief

LOS ANGELES - Jonathan Rinderknecht , a 29-year-old Uber driver, has been charged with sparking the deadly Palisades Fire .

The backstory:

According to Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, Rinderknecht, who was working as an Uber driver, allegedly started a fire in the Palisades area shortly after midnight on New Year's Day, after dropping off passengers nearby.

Prosecutors contend Rinderknecht, who once lived in the neighborhood, drove toward Skull Rock Trailhead, parked his car, attempted to contact a former friend, and then walked up the trail to an area known as the Hidden Buddha clearing. He used his iPhone to take videos at a nearby hilltop area and listened to a French rap song titled "Un Zder, Un The" -- to which he had listened repeatedly in previous days and t

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