Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, Man Behind Anti-Islam Film, Arrested

The Southern California man behind the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims" was ordered detained without bail in September 2012, after a federal judge found he had likely violated the terms of his probation.

Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, had a 2010 bank fraud conviction, and his supervised release barred him from using the internet without approval and from using names other than his legal one. Judge Suzanne Segal cited a "lengthy pattern of deception" and called him a flight risk who posed "some danger to the community," according to ABC News, which first reported the arrest.

Nakoula had initially told reporters he was an Israeli Jew named Sam Bacile and that the film cost $5 million from wealthy donors. He was, in fact, an Egyptian-American Coptic Christian; he later told authorities the film cost between $50,000 and $60,000, shot in about 12 days, funded by his wife's family in Egypt.

Days earlier, his family had fled their Cerritos, California home under police escort to join him in hiding after death threats.

The film had been blamed for violent protests across the Middle East, including the September 11 attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

This is an original summary of the 2012 report, which drew on ABC News and Associated Press reporting.