Sponsored message
Logged in as
Audience-funded nonprofit news
radio tower icon laist logo
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
 — 
See All Episodes
Subscribe

Hey, LA listener!

Download our app for the optimal streaming experience

Apple Store logo Google play logo
  • Listen Now Playing Listen
  • Listen Now Playing Listen
AirTalk

Arsonist update

By AirTalk Staff
Published Jan 3, 2012
LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 2: An apartment complex that was burned in a spree of arson fires lies in ruins on January 2, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. Police have taken a suspect into custody whom they believe was responsible for setting more than 50 fires over the weekend. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
An apartment complex that was burned in a spree of arson fires lies in ruins on January 2, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.
(
David McNew/Getty Images
)
Listen 8:04
Arsonist update
More information is coming out about Harry Burkhart, the man arrested as a suspect in the arson spree in Los Angeles. Burkhart is a German national, who is a self-proclaimed "America-hater." Apparently it was the State Department that alerted officials in Los Angeles, as Burkhart's mother has been requested for a provisional arrest by Germany. How did authorities put the pieces together to track him down? Will charges be filed against the man? Is he the prime suspect?

More information is coming out about Harry Burkhart, the man arrested as a suspect in the arson spree in Los Angeles. Burkhart is a German national, who is a self-proclaimed "America-hater." Apparently it was the State Department that alerted officials in Los Angeles, as Burkhart's mother has been requested for a provisional arrest by Germany. How did authorities put the pieces together to track him down? Will charges be filed against the man? Is he the prime suspect?

Guest:

Frank Stoltze, KPCC reporter