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Video image leads to arrest in LA arson spree

By Adam Nagourney

 |  New York Times  

  January 03, 2012

Authorities arrested a man Monday in connection with dozens of suspected arson fires that destroyed parked cars, scorched buildings and rattled much of the nation’s second-largest city over the New Year’s weekend. The suspect resembled a person captured on surveillance video near a carport. The man, believed to be 20 to 30 years old, was seen emerging from an underground parking garage on Hollywood Boulevard where a car fire was reported.

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