A 29-year-old man facing three federal charges in relation to the devastating Palisades fire allegedly had a loaded .380 magazine in his pocket during his October arrest in Florida and hid a handgun in a stuffed animal in the garage of his sister’s home, just feet from the ground within reach of her two children, federal authorities said in a court document asking a judge to keep him held in jail until his April trial.

Before a second detention hearing scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 18, federal prosecutors alleged Jonathan Rinderknecht is a flight risk due to his international ties, is a danger to the community because of volatile confrontations with his sister and brother-in-law, has suffered declining mental health, and is untrustworthy because he has lied to federal agents.

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