Authorities Identify Man Who Set Fire to Truck at Bay Bridge Toll Plaza

The California Highway Patrol has identified the man who apparently set fire to his own pick-up truck and was allegedly behaving erratically at the Bay Bridge toll plaza yesterday morning.

Romeo Cruz Bautista, 32, of Sacramento, was detained on a psychiatric hold after reports yesterday morning, around 8:30 a.m., of a vehicle, which turned out to be a 1998 Ford F-150 pick-up truck, on fire in the travel lanes near the plaza.

Further, a man, later identified as Bautista, was standing in the travel lanes and acting erratically.

Oakland Fire Department responders put out the fire and attended to Bautista who suffered minor injuries.

Bautista was then transported to Highland Hospital in Oakland for physical and psychiatric evaluation.