LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police say they’ve arrested a person who used a chainsaw to chop down giant timber in not less than three neighborhoods across the metropolis.
Outraged residents started reporting the destruction final Friday afternoon. Photographs posted on-line confirmed a number of mature timber toppled onto downtown sidewalks, and not less than one fell onto a avenue.
The LAPD stated “numerous” timber had been felled at city-owned property on not less than 4 blocks, and detectives had been investigating different attainable places. On Tuesday, they launched a photograph of a suspect on a bicycle sporting darkish clothes and carrying two luggage. A neighborhood alert described him as a person in his 40s.
Hours later, police introduced an arrest, saying a 45-year-old man had been taken into custody on suspicion of felony vandalism and that “detectives located evidence linking him to the crimes.” There was no details about a attainable motive.
A message was despatched to the LA Public Defender’s Workplace inquiring if one in all its attorneys was representing the person and will converse on his behalf.
A few of the timber had large trunks. A quantity gave the impression to be ficus timber.
Bushes lie on the road after being lower down the earlier Friday night time seen on Sunday, April 20, 2025 in Los Angeles. (Carlin Stiehl/Los Angeles Instances by way of AP)
In a press release, the workplace of Mayor Karen Bass known as the carnage “truly beyond comprehension.”
“City public works crews are assessing the damage and we will be making plans to quickly replace these damaged trees,” the assertion stated.
Initially Revealed: April 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM EDT
