Deputy who arrested arson suspect shuns limelight

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Photo: L. A. County Sheriff Reserve Deputy Shervin Lalezary, center, leaves a news conference at the West Hollywood police station with his brother Shawn Lalezary, far left. Credit: Anne
Cusack/ Los Angeles Times

--Robert Faturechi in West Hollywood
January 3, 2012 | 7:55 pm

A crowd of reporters huddled outside the West Hollywood station of the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department on Tuesday evening hoping to answer one question: Who is Shervin Lalezary?

Ever since early Monday morning, when the volunteer deputy was vaulted into the limelight after nabbing the suspect in more than 50 fires, the attorney-by-day has insisted on a low-profile.
Before he approached the cameras Tuesday, the gaggle of waiting reporters wondered aloud about the 30-year-old. Where’s he from, asked one. What kind of attorney is he, asked another. Is he single, mused a third.

But anyone hoping the square-jawed Lalezary would talk about himself left deeply disappointed. He thanked his fellow reserve deputies, the Sheriff’s Department and the county’s residents, gave a few polite but brief responses and, just as abruptly, returned to the line of fellow volunteers standing proudly behind him. He wouldn’t even tell the reporter from the local Beverly Hills newspaper if he lived in Beverly Hills.

And he only offered a brief glimpse into the arrest the city’s been buzzing about: As firefighters were frantically responding to 11 new arson calls early Monday, Lalezary was on his normal patrol, driving down Sunset Boulevard near Fairfax Avenue.

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Shervin Lalezary is Perisan-American.