Flower stands outside Forest Lawn cemetery, near Griffith Park, were deserted after several vendors were detained by federal immigration agents on Monday.
Forest Lawn Drive is a popular spot for flower vendors, serving people going to the cemetery. One of them told Eyewitness News that federal agents took seven vendors into custody.
“They left all their flowers. They left all their buckets. They didn’t have nothing besides their own personal belongings, like their phone, and this guy that we worked with, he had ran off so he won’t get caught, and he’s been gone since yesterday, so we don’t know if he’s still hiding,” said flower vendor Alexis Rodriguez…