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| Los Angeles firefighters battle an arson car fire under a carport in Los Angeles Monday, Jan. 2, 2012. Twelve suspected arson fires broke out early Monday in the Los Angeles area. A "person of interest" was taken into custody for questioning in connection with the dozens of suspicious car fires that have hit the city during the past week. |
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The mother of a German man accused of setting numerous fires in Los Angles has been charged in Germany with 19 counts of fraud.
Court documents unsealed Tuesday say Dorothee Burkhart was charged in Frankfurt in case in which she is accused of not paying for a 2004 breast-augmentation surgery.
Her son Harry Burkhart was arrested early Monday for investigation of the outbreak of arson late last week. Dorothee Burkhart was arrested Dec. 28 on a warrant from Germany.
Dorothee Burkhart made a brief appearance in federal court, seeming perplexed and repeatedly asked a magistrate judge where her son was.
She wondered aloud if he was dead or had disappeared, and at one point she stated that he is mentally ill.
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