arrested during a traffic stop. police say burkhart became enraged and had to be restrained. his mother, dorothy, an international fugitive, was wanted by german authorities on 37 counts of fraud. later that day, harry attended dorothy s initial extradition hearing and his tirade resumed. he entered the courtroom and made quite a disturbance. there was a lot of cursing in english, words i won t repeat here. he was detained momentarily by court security personnel. reporter: authorities suspect his mother s detention may have been the motivation for what began less than 12 hours later. first, more than 50 arson fires that terrified several los angeles communities over four days. it was full of smoke. we couldn t even breathe. reporter: the arson spree didn t stop until harry burkhart was arrested. appearing to smirk in the back seat of a patrol car early monday morning.
crime and punishment tonight, a judge set bail for the 24-year-old arson suspect at $2.8 million. harry burkhart also has to surrender his german passport. he was arrested monday for the 52 fires set over 4 days in los angeles. most of the fires targeted parked cars. some of the flames spread to homes because often the car parts were right underneath the houses. the crime spree rattles the city over the long holiday weekend, obviously. it s becoming more bizarre by the minute as new details about this guy, about the suspect and his mom emerge. casey wian has the latest. reporter: approximately 24 hours before the worst arson spree in los angeles since the 1992 riots, prime suspect harry burkhart was behind the wheel when his mother, dorothy, was arrested during a traffic stop. police say burkhart became enraged and had to be restrained. his mother, dorothy, an international fugitive, was
the carports were right underneath the houses. the kram spree rattled the city over the long holiday weekend, obviously. tonight story s becoming more complicated and frankly more bizarre by the minute as new details about the guy, about the suspect and husband mom emerge. casey wian has the latest. reporter: approximately 24 hours before the worst arson spree in los angeles since the 1992 riots, prime suspect harry burkhart was behind the wheel when his mother, dorothee, was arrested during a traffic stop. police say burkhart became enraged and had to be restrained. his mother, dorothee, an international fugitive, was wanted by german authorities on 19 counts of fraud related to rental housing and nonpayment for breast augmentation surgery. later that day harry attended dorothee s initial extradition hearing and his tirade resumed. he entered the courtroom and made quite a disturbance. there was a lot of cursing in english, words that i won t repeat here.
but back to the ads and also keeping them honest, how clean are speaker gingrich s hands or rick perry or anyone else s. in his concession speech last night from beginning to end, speaker gingrich ignored the attack ads. they really wanted to get to the truth rather than the latest 30-second distortion. i would not have survived in this campaign against millions and millions of dollars of negative advertising. if it weren t for the thousands of volunteers who showed up and who helped us in every town and in every precinct, and every one of us that are members, what made part of these negative ads so shameful, every one of us should remember, this process survives because young and women risk their lives to allow us to do this. now here s a sampling of the ads that ran all over iowa in the last few weeks. has more baggage than the airlines. newt gingrich supports amnesty for millions of illegals. he was fined $300,000 for ethics violations. whatever you think of them
other guy s back or front. newt said attack ads helped knock him to a fourth place finish last night in iowa. romney squeaking to victory over senator santorum. santorum picking up congresswoman michele bachmann suspending her campaign today. but back to the ads and also keeping them honest, how clean are speaker gingrich s hands or rick perry s or anyone else s. in his concession speech last night from beginning to end, gingrich praised iowans who ignored attack ads. they really wanted to get to the truth rather than the latest 30-second distortion. i would not have survived in this campaign against millions and millions of dollars of negative advertising. if it weren t for the thousands of volunteers who showed up and who helped us in every town and in every precinct, and every one of us that are members, what made part of these negative ads so shameful, every one of us should remember, this process survives because young men and women risk their lives to allow us to do