District attorneys urge harsh penalties for looters

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Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman said the looters and thieves who have preyed on victims of the recent Los Angeles wildfires as “despicable and disgraceful people” and has vowed to go after them as hard as the law allows. Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer called the more than 50 suspected looters who have struck homes in evacuated zones in the wake of the devastating Los Angeles wildfires, “nothing more than graverobbers.” Together, the two top law officials in Southern California want to make looting during a local emergency a felony, punishable by prison rather than county jail time.…


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