Overview
- The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department says deputies responded shortly after midnight on Tuesday to two vehicles on fire at a Pilot truck stop and later arrested 30‑year‑old Nicole Najlis on suspicion of attempted murder and arson.
- Two people who had been sleeping in one vehicle woke, escaped without injury, and firefighters extinguished blazes that destroyed two cars.
- According to vehicle owner James Bahr and witnesses, a row over prescription Xanax escalated on a road trip and Bahr says Najlis punched him and then lit a match inside the parked car; those descriptive details come from the owner and witnesses and are not yet independently confirmed by investigators.
- Bahr, a professional pyrotechnician, told reporters the car contained propane tanks and fire‑effects equipment and that a propane tank detonated about 30 seconds after the blaze began, which he says worsened the destruction and led him to estimate roughly $12,000 in losses.
- Najlis performs online as 'Cosmic Nymph' and has prior run‑ins with police, her bail is set at $1 million, she is due in court, and prosecutors’ formal charging decisions and any forensic fire origin findings are the next developments to watch.