After four days of continuous car fires in Los Angles California suspect Harry Burkhart, 24, was taken into custody around 3:00am on Sunset Boulevard on the outskirts of Hollywood close to a drug store. He was charged for arson at around 6:00am and held without bail.
“A serial arsonist has, I believe, been caught,” Sheriff Lee Baca of Los Angeles County, standing in front of television cameras, said at a news conference attended by a parade of elected officials.
Sheriff Baca called the suspect “Perhaps the most dangerous arsonist in the county of Los Angeles that I can recall.”
The attacks began early Friday morning and continued the next three nights. In the end, 52 cars were set on fire. Since many of the cars were in carports or garages, a number of apartment buildings sustained serious damage as well.
Shervin Lalezary, a reserve sheriff’s deputy who works for $1 a year, spotted the suspect and stopped him at Sunset Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue. He was introduced to considerable applause at the news conference on Monday evening as he described the stop. “As soon as I put on my lights and initiated a traffic stop of the suspect vehicle, I had an L.A.P.D. vehicle behind me ready to go,” he said.
Source: nytimes.com
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