Armando Salvador Convicted For Lighting Cars On Fire

SAN FRANCISCO—On Friday, October 10, 2025, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office reported that Armando Salvador, 69, was convicted after a trial by jury. Salvador was convicted of eight counts of arson of another’s property (PC 451(d)), and two counts of unlawfully causing a fire (PC 452).

According to the testimony and evidence presented at trial, on the evening of February 18, 2024, at approximately 6 a.m., Salvador started at Campton Place, lit a Cadillac Escalade on fire then set fire to 5 additional vehicles located on Geary Street and O’Farrell Street.

On February 24, 2024, approximately one week later, he set fire to two Tesla Model Ys at the intersection of Mabini Street and Bonifacio Street and the intersection of Shipley Street and Fourth Street. The fires were so large