Los Angeles residents have put up signs threatening to shoot looters as almost 70 opportunist criminals were arrested while trying to burgle evacuated homes.
Among the 68 people who were arrested is a burglar who disguised himself as a firefighter to gain access to decimated mansions caught in the path of the worst fires to ever tear through Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna revealed on Sunday that the fake fireman had been arrested in glitzy Malibu – which was particularly ravaged by the largest of the fires – when he was caught burglarizing the abandoned and burnt out homes along the waterfront.
Authorities who have vowed to prosecute looters to the full extent of the law as the city reels from devastating, which are still destroying everything in their paths across southern California.
Security in evacuated neighbourhoods has been beefed up, with wealthy residents employing a private security firm to protect their homes from looters after abandoning them due to…
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