LOS ANGELES—A German man set nearly 50 fires in a California arson spree because he wanted revenge for his mother’s deportation, a prosecutor told jurors Monday.
Harry Burkhart inflicted “unspeakable devastation and terror,” Los Angeles County prosecutor Sean Carney told jurors in his opening statement, City News Service reported. Burkhart, 29, had threatened to “roast America” after his mother, Dorothee Burkhart, was ordered extradited to Germany to face fraud charges, prosecutors said.
