wanted by german authorities on 19 counts of fraud related to rental housing and nonpayment of breast augmentation surgery. 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. >> the room 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. he was apprehended by a reserve sheriff's deputy acting on a tip from the state department. an agent recognized burkhart from this surveillance tape, at