HOT NEWS - Los Angeles police arrested a man after the explosion more than 50 arson, but refused to confirm the possible relationship to Canada.
Harry Burkhart, 24, was arrested Monday morning after a deputy sheriff saw driving a van that is similar to the topics searched after a series of 53 fires in Los Angeles, Hollywood and surrounding communities.
Authorities protected Burkhart, a resident of Hollywood, who said, in their view, a German citizen suspected of arson and he was in jail in Los Angeles.
"Our long term goal, four-day nightmare is over," said Zev Yaroslavsky and Los Angeles, the head at a press conference on Monday night.
"This is really a nightmare for the people in the western part of Los Angeles, San Fernando Valley and West Hollywood," Yaroslavsky said. "I live in this community, and I do not have a good night last week I was looking forward to tonight .."
Burkhart is expected that the accusations against him informed at a meeting on Wednesday.
Authorities refused to comment on reports that the Los Angeles Times Burkhart was involved in a dispute with the federal government on the immigration status of his mother.
According to media reports the man driving a van with BC license plates prior to his arrest.
Sara yarn, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department had no reports of a man who connects BC to confirm possible.
`` I have also heard, but this information does not come from us,''yarn, said Monday.
Los Angeles Times also reported that the van is a Canadian license plates, although Burkhart may have come from Germany.
Car fires are most distant from home or on the roof of the building, including fire-oriented.
While no one seriously injured, but firefighters were treated and released for injuries in a fire at the weekend and another man suffered minor injuries on New Year's Eve.
One of the damaged houses were burned in the Hollywood Hills, where the singer of The Doors' Jim Morrison was still alive.
Federal investigators were called to investigate a series of fires, one of the worst crime sprees in the city since 1992 to help the race riots.