As I described here on Thursday, at least 20 looters have been arrested in LA County so far, but there are many media reports suggesting the number of looters goes far beyond that. Some reports indicated that caravans of men on cars and scooters were going through neighborhoods under evacuation orders looking for homes they could rob. So many people were experiencing this that some homeowners refused to leave in order to safeguard their homes.
On Friday, the 62-year-old said she has been camped out at her two-bedroom Craftsman after seeing news reports that roving bands of thieves are targeting homes that weren’t leveled and remain unoccupied in evacuation zones around the city…
“No one’s here securing the homes, so these criminals are coming and breaking in,” she said. “Just to add more insult to injury, we have that now. So I’m living in my…
