“In requesting Harry Burkhart be held on no bail, investigators said in court documents that a search of Burkhart’s Hollywood apartment turned up news articles about the Los Angeles fires AS WELL AS A SERIES OF CAR FIRES IN FRANKFURT LAST SEPTEMBER. Authorities couldn’t comment on whether Burkhart is a suspect in the German fires. His bail was set at $2.85 million.[emphasis mine]
On page 2 of that link it further states:
"The extradition request has yet to be drawn up and sent to the German Justice Ministry for relay to U.S. authorities, said Doris Moeller-Scheu, a spokeswoman for Frankfurt prosecutors."
Really? Then consider these good points raised in the comments at LANews (note: these comments as well as others appear to have been purged from that board since last night):
SoCalBeachDude at 11:31 PM January 3, 2012 The heading on this article states “For months, authorities scoured West Hollywood, carrying a photo of a squat, green-eyed woman through a bustling hive of Russian-language social clubs and cafes selling borscht and vareniki dumplings. She was Dorothee Burkhart, a fugitive wanted on a host of fraud charges in Germany.” Really? Why didn’t they just do a simple google search and find her erotic web site with her name and then set up an apppointment with her?"&
SoCalBeachDude at 10:53 PM January 3, 2012 "How exactly if warrants were issued for her arrest in Frankfurt in 2007 did she enter the US in 2007 and remain in the US for the past 4 years? How was she managing to cross back and forth from the US border into and out of Canada (presumable British Columbia) since at least 2005? Aren’t international warrants and visas checked at border crossings? Was she using any alternative identify? Where was she getting the money to pay high rents, living expenses, and travel extensively when there was no evidence or her working or any means of income? After 4 years or her being in the US, where was there such a sudden focus using lots of police resources in 2001 on her? While 19 fraud counts in Germany are not insignificant, they are all pretty small potatoes stuff and hardly seem to warrant the involvent of the ATF, Interpol, the FBI and other combined task forces? Why was her son granted a long term visa to be in the US? The standard period a German citizen can be in the US without a visa is 90 days, at which time a visa needs to be issued and then renewed if applicable. Why would a visa for the son be renewed for a 4 year period if that was the case? What is really going on here in the case of this alleged fraudulent woman and her alleged arsonist son?"
Is Frankfurt northwest (Heddernheim, Niederursel, down Eschbach and Praunheim) considered “alternative neighborhoods” as well . . .and are they significantly enriched by one particularly and perpetually aggrieved invasive culture?