Federal officials confirmed Saturday that 37 people were taken into custody through attacks at three Home Depots across Los Angeles earlier in the week.
The information includes reports that appeared at KTLA on Monday, June 30th, with dozens of people in custody at Home Depots in Cypress Park, Hollywood and North Hollywood.
On Saturday, a spokesman for the Department of Home Security responded to KTLA’s June 30 investigation into the Home Depot Raids report, saying that US customs and border protection agents arrested 14 people during surgery on Figueroa Street, 11 people in North Harrywood and 12 people in Sunset Boulevard.
“The criminal history of those detained includes drug trafficking, firearm crime, theft, counterfeiting, DUI and batteries,” a DHS spokesman said.
One immigration rights activist told KTLA’s Kimberly Chen that the Cypress Park raid was “about 9-10 Border Patrol vehicles and were marked so clearly that we went to our Day Labour Center to actually grab people,” she said. “We locked the gates, and they grabbed 15 to 30 people there.”
The woman told KTLA that she then rushed to an attack at Home Depot on Sunset Boulevard, and was attacked about a week and a half ago. During that first attack, ice agents were reportedly seen to detain about 30 people. Authorities said 12 people were taken from the same location on June 30th.
“Between 11:30pm and 12pm, about six unmarked vehicles (some already in the parking lot at Home Depot) came out and started grabbing people,” the activist said.
A DHS spokesman, who confirmed the total number of people detained that day, said: “DHS and its components continue to enforce laws every day across Los Angeles, as well as across the nation.”
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