Napa County prosecutors shared court documents with us laying out the crime spree.
It included a 2-acre fire that investigators say the suspect intentionally set on Thursday. That fire started near Highway 175 and McKinley Drive in Lake County.
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The criminal complaint says the man also carjacked someone and led officers on a pursuit, starting on Highway 29 near Robert Louis Stevenson State Park.
He is accused of first trying to steal a patrol vehicle, then stealing a jeep wrangler with a child inside. The pursuit ended when the suspect reached a dead end near Calistoga and was finally taken into custody.
The child is said to be OK.