ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A suspect in the Los Angeles area’s deadly Palisades Fire earlier this year was ordered to be moved to California on Thursday from central Florida, where he was arrested last week.

A hearing for Jonathan Rinderknecht that had been scheduled in Orlando, Florida, for Friday was canceled. His next hearing will be an arraignment in Los Angeles in the upcoming weeks, according to federal prosecutors.

The order to move Rinderknecht from Florida to California came a day after a grand jury in Southern California indicted him on one count each of destruction of property by means of fire, arson affecting property used in interstate commerce and timber set afire.

Rinderknecht was arrested last week along Florida’s Space Coast, where he had been living in his sister and broth

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