LOS ANGELES — A Department of Children and Family Services vehicle was vandalized by a crowd that mistakenly thought sheriff’s deputies were conducting an immigration raid in the South Los Angeles area, officials said Saturday.
The encounter took place at approximately 10:15 a.m. Monday, as detectives with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department were serving a search and arrest warrant in the 900 block of 49th Street.
The warrant was related to an ongoing criminal investigation involving 21-year-old Lyla Avila, the LASD told City News Service. Avila was immediately taken into custody on suspicion of being an accessory after the fact, and her child was taken into protective custody by the DCFS…