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Real estate heir Durst comes to California for murder charge

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FILE - In March 17, 2015, file photo, New York real estate heir Robert Durst smiles as he is transported from Orleans Parish Criminal District Court to the Orleans Parish Prison after his arraignment on murder charges in New Orleans. Durst has made his long-awaited arrival in California to face charges of killing a friend 16 years ago. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office says Durst was locked up in a county jail Friday, Nov. 4, 2016. He's scheduled to face arraignment Monday for the killing of friend Susan Berman in 2000. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) (The Associated Press)

FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2014 file photo, New York City real estate heir Robert Durst leaves a Houston courtroom. Durst has made his long-awaited arrival in California to face charges of killing a friend 16 years ago. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office says Durst was locked up in a county jail Friday, Nov. 4, 2016. He's scheduled to face arraignment Monday for the killing of friend Susan Berman in 2000. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File) (The Associated Press)

FILE - In this March 17, 2015, file photo, New York real estate heir Robert Durst is escorted from Orleans Parish Criminal District Court to the Orleans Parish Prison after his arraignment in New Orleans. Durst has made his long-awaited arrival in California to face charges of killing a friend 16 years ago. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office says Durst was locked up in a county jail Friday, Nov. 4, 2016. He's scheduled to face arraignment Monday for the killing of friend Susan Berman in 2000. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) (The Associated Press)

New York real estate heir Robert Durst has made his long-awaited arrival in California to face charges of killing a friend 16 years ago.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office says Durst was locked up in a county jail Friday.

He's scheduled to face arraignment Monday for the killing of friend Susan Berman in 2000.

His attorney Dick DeGuerin (duh-GEHR'-in) has said Durst is eager to get to California and prove he didn't kill Berman.

Durst, already well-known in New York, became a national name when HBO aired a documentary about him and suspicions of several alleged crimes in 2015. He was arrested early the morning that the final episode aired.

In April, Durst pleaded guilty in New Orleans to a federal weapons charge and got seven years in prison and had been serving time in Indiana.