The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has removed dozens of homeless people who were living in luxury campers they had taken over that were stored in an RV lot in the City of Industry.
The land was ultimately subjected to vandalism, garbage, and fires, with most of the campers severely damaged.
“This morning, the last people were placed,” Capt. Geoffrey Deedrick told The Epoch Times on April 2.
The Sheriff’s Department had discovered 58 individuals on the property. Deedrick said everyone was given the opportunity to be placed into interim shelter, including a mother and baby who were living in the luxury campers.
“We did see there was one mother with her child who had been there that was placed,” said Deedrick, who is part of the Sheriff Department’s Homeless Outreach Services Team. The baby was no more than 6 months old, he said.
Of the nearly five dozen people found on the land, 25 voluntarily left and declined to be placed into housing. One was placed for a mental evaluation, and 32 said they were spending time with friends who were living in the recreational vehicles (RVs). No arrests were made, Deedrick said.
Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis said the property owner had taken steps to obtain a court order to remove the occupants, and an outreach team helped those evicted find housing.
In September 2024, the lot’s owner, Legacy Point LLC, initiated legal proceedings to regain possession of the site and filed for authorization to remove anyone occupying the site, Solis said.
When granted, the property owner immediately moved to enforce the order.
“The County of Los Angeles does not have jurisdiction over land use matters in incorporated cities like the City of Industry, but my office has been proactive in addressing concerns at the lot,” Solis said, noting she engaged the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Homeless Outreach Services Team to conduct outreach.
Black Series, the company that owns the RVs, says it used the property to store inventory and that it had anywhere between 50 to 60 trailers on the property. It never had permission to park the trailers on the property, according to Legacy Point.
Black Series, which sells camping trailers, was headquartered about two miles east of the lot, which it used for overflow. There had been a few break-ins in the vehicles on the lot before, but once the company moved to another city in January, things started to get worse.
People began breaking into and moving into the RVs, a representative of Black Series told The Epoch Times on March 28.
“That’s when I feel like people really spread the word that, hey, they’re leaving. They must have abandoned these or whatever,” the representative said. “And that’s when this thing really got out of control. We did have security on site, and they were just overpowered.”
The representative said the company had removed tires from the campers to prevent them from being stolen.
“But we never anticipated that people were going to break in,” he said. “Unfortunately, our best security efforts were just not enough to contain the situation.”
The owner of the lot, Legacy Point LLC, claims that Black Series placed the campers on the land without its consent.
“While we would have greatly preferred a more expeditious resolution, we recognize that the deliberate pace of our legal system, though at times frustrating, is a fundamental aspect of ensuring due process of law,” Legacy Point said in a statement provided to media outlets. “We have now initiated proceedings with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department to enforce the court’s judgment and restore our rightful possession of the property.”
An attorney for Legacy Point did not return a request for comment.
