Man called 911 to report he set a car on fire, police say

SUNSET — A man was taken into custody on Tuesday after police say he called Davis County Dispatch and said he lit a car on fire. The car was a Sunset City police vehicle.

A probable cause statement for the incident said 46-year-old Chad Randal Livingston told dispatch that he lit a car on fire because police told him they were going to kill him.

The statement said Livingston walked from his home to the Sunset City Office Building with a torch and a bottle of lighter fluid with the intent of setting a vehicle on fire. When he got there, he saw a Sunset City Police car.

“He doused the driver’s door and window, the roof, and wrote his name on the back hatch of the vehicle in lighter fluid, where he took the torch he brought with him and lit the police vehicle on fire,” the statement said.

Livingston reportedly told police that he intended to light a vehicle on fire because he wanted to “make a change,” the statement said. He also allegedly told officers that the reason he called 911 was that he ran out of lighter fluid, and that was an emergency.

“(Livingston) stated he knew what he was doing was wrong but stated he wanted to get the attention of law enforcement, and figured lighting a police vehicle would accomplish this,” the statement said.

The fire reportedly caused somewhere between $1,500 and $5,000 in damage.

Livingston is accused of two felonies for arson and property damage.