HEART OF HOLLYWOOD NEAR CAHUENGA REPORTER: WELL, THEY FOUND SOME DRUGS, SOME WEAPONS AND A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO SAID THEY'VE BEEN COMPLAINING A LONG TIME ABOUT THE OWNER
OVER MY SHOULDER YOU STILL SEE SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT THEY WERE HERE LEGALLY THE RENT WAS CHEAP, ANYWHERE FROM $500 A MONTH TO $A 1500 DEPENDING UPON THE SIZE OF THE OFFICE, BUT IT WAS AN OFFICE BUILDING, NOT A PLACE TO SPEND THE NIGHT PEOPLE HERE THOUGHT THEY WERE OKAY UNTIL THIS MORNING ACCORDING TO ONE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, THE BUILDING ON HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD WHERE THIS PREDAWN RAID OCCURRED HAS BEEN A SORE SPOT WITH THE CITY FOR QUITE A WHILE HE IS THE STEREOTYPICAL SLUM LORD, AND WE'RE GOING AFTER HIM
JUST THAT SIMPLE REPORTER: MITCHELL FARRELL WAS REFERRING TO 80-YEAR-OLD METI BALORE, AND THE PEOPLE WHO WERE TEN MAY NOTES SAY HE WAS — TEN MAY NOTES SAY HE WAS A NIGHTMARE TO WORK WITH HE HAD FIVE THUGS COME IN TO THE URN OFF THE ELECTRICITY HE DOES NOTHING BUT ILLEGAL STUFF REPORTER: THE REACTION BEHIND A LOCKED DOOR AT THE REAL ESTATE HEADQUARTERS TODAY
WE WANT TO HAVE A CHANCE FOR HIM TO DEFEND HIMSELF WHEN HE'S AVAILABLE — [INAUDIBLE] BE REPORTER: OKAY IS HE AVAILABLE NOW? THE ANSWER WAS, NO THE LAPD PROVIDED THESE PICTURES OF WHAT THE LIVING CONDITIONS WERE LIKE THEY SAID THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE AN OFFICE BUILDING, NOT A PLACE TO LIVE, AND THAT PEOPLE WERE LIVING HERE
66 WERE CITED FOR TRESPASSING POLICE ALSO FOUND DRUGS AND WEAPONS, AND SOME PEOPLE WHO LIVE NEARBY TOLD ME THE PLACE IS A BIG PROBLEM; DRUGS, SEX AND ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE IN AND OUT ALL NIGHT OH, YEAH THERE'S BEEN FIGHTS AND ARGUMENTS REPORTER: DO YOU THINK THERE'S DRUGS GOING ON IN THERE? OH, I KNOW THAT
BUT THE THING IS EVERYONE CAN'T SELL DRUGS IN THE BUILDING REPORTER: THERE WAS A DRUG RAID IN THIS SAME BUILDING FOUR MONTHS AGO, AND THE LAPD HAS HAD THEIR EYE ON THE LANDLORD FOR QUITE SOME TIME HE, APPARENTLY, HAS LOST CONTROL AND DOES NOT HAVE A LEADERSHIP TEAM IN PLACE TO MANAGE A BUILDING LIKE THIS I WILL GO AFTER WHATEVER IT TAKES TO BRING HIS ENTERPRISE DOWN BECAUSE HE IS ACCOMMODATING CRIME IN HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: THE CITY HAS ORDERED THE BUILDING VACATED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
SO AGAIN, THE PEOPLE HERE STANDING WITH BY THE U-HAUL TRUCK ARE NOT ALLOWED IN THE BUILDING, BUT THE SECURITY GUARDS ARE KIND ENOUGH TO GO IN AND GRAB THE STUFF OUT OF THE OFFICE SPACE WHEN SOME OF THE PEOPLE CONTACTED THE MAN'S OFFICE AND SAID HOW ABOUT A REBATE, THE
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