Video footage captured by local resident Gabe Cortez shows the suspect appearing distressed as another resident chases him down the road. He yells out, “I didn’t do anything, I didn’t do anything,” in Spanish. The clip cuts to deputies handcuffing the suspect while a woman deputy says, “Wrong neighborhood, buddy. Wrong neighborhood.”

A man lit a fire near the Chatsworth Reservoir, authorities say, but firefighters were able to contain the blaze and residents chased down the suspect.

A man was arrested for an alleged arson after a group of witnesses spotted him lighting a fire in Chatsworth on Monday and detained him until deputies arrived, according to the Los Angeles County

A group of neighbors chased down a man suspected of starting a fire Monday afternoon near the Chatsworth Reservoir in Los Angeles, California. (Gabe Cortez, Instagram)

Neighbors in Chatsworth chased down a man accused of trying to start a brush fire. The detained the man, before deputies got there to arrest him.

A man accused of lighting a brush fire in wildfire-ravaged Southern California has been arrested after nearby neighbors chased him down, sheriff’s officials reported. Deputies found a group of onlookers detaining the man in Chatsworth at about 4:30 p.