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A man chopped down Los Angeles trees. The crime cut deep in the struggling neighborhood

Traffic flows on Interstate 5 past shipping containers near downtown Los Angeles, Tuesday, April 8, 2025.

For days, police say, Samuel Patrick Groft cruised through the streets of Los Angeles on his bicycle, single-handedly chopping down about a dozen city trees with an electric chainsaw in three different neighborhoods.

(Image credit: Jae C. Hong)

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