Police on Wednesday announced the arrest of an alleged arsonist who sparked as many as four fires in Santa Monica over the weekend. They say that Marco Antonio Rubio, 36, is suspected of igniting the blazes at multiple locations throughout the city between 1 p.

A Los Angeles man who teaches at Santa Monica High School has been arrested after it was alleged he was involved in an “inappropriate relationship” with a student. Ingo Horst Gaida, 58, was arrested Wednesday by uniformed and undercover members of the Santa Monica Police Department.