Hospital Fire Suspect in Custody
The Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ) finally have a suspect in their hands, arresting 24 year old, Juan Carlos Ledesma Sánchez, responsable for the fire that took 21 lives at the Calderón Guardia hospital on July 12 this year.

The arrest took place in San Ramón, an hour northwest of San José. The man is described as single and has a professional degree for nursing, among other jobs, that police say are false.

OIJ officials arrested the man at his home early yesterday morning, knocking on his door with a warrant in hands. The man did not resist the arrest and was immediately transferred to the OIJ cells in san José.

Investigators say they have sufficient evidence linking Sanchéz to the tragic incident and believe personal problems led him to set the fire. Sanchéz had been under investigation from the beginning, but it wasn't until now that the Fiscalía (prosecutor's office) decided to effect an arrest.

Police say that they believe that Sanchéz never meant to cause any harm or deaths, but rather to be a hero, just like he did in the small January fire at the hospital, which evidence points to him as well as having set the fire in a hallway closet and was quickly put out to his efforts.

Today (Saturday) a judge is expected to order Sanchéz to six months preventive detention as the Fiscalía prepares it's case against him.