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The hero L.A. Reserve Deputy who caught the man suspected in a string of terrifying arson fires opened up on the Ellen DeGeneres show yesterday about his headline-making traffic stop.

A beaming Shervin Lalezary told Ellen, “Honestly, I feel relieved. What the suspect was doing… he was terrorizing the community. During the course of the day, we talked to a lot of the citizens of West Hollywood who were really on edge. Any person that they saw around the carport was suspicious, calling 911 and calling us, [saying] ‘Hey, it might be him.’ I have a lot of friends and family in the area and they were definitely on heightened alert as well.”

Ellen responded, “To the fire department — to everybody — we say thank you for every day, what you do, every single day. Thank you.”