Samuel Patrick Groft, 45, was sentenced to two years in county jail after pleading no contest to vandalizing 13 trees with a chainsaw. The attacks, primarily in downtown Los Angeles, caused an ...
On Wednesday, Samuel Patrick Groft, 45, was sentenced by the Los Angeles County Superior Court to 2 years after cutting down about a dozen trees over a span of around 5 days. Groft pleaded no contest ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trees lie on the street on April 20, 2025, after being cut in downtown Los Angeles. (Carlin Stiehl / Los Angeles Times) The ...
The mysterious case of a chain-saw-wielding vandal who appeared to randomly terrorize trees in and around downtown Los Angeles last year has come to an anticlimatic close. Just as the trial for Samuel ...