Los Angeles escalates war against gigantic billboards with 4 arrest warrants
By APThursday, March 4, 2010
4 arrests sought for breaking LA billboard laws
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles is escalating the war against gigantic billboards.
City Attorney Carmen Trutanich has obtained arrest warrants for four people, days after he jailed a man on $1 million bail for allegedly putting up an eight-story supergraphic ad without a permit.
The Los Angeles Times says a judge has issued a warrant with $250,000 bail and three others with bails of $100,000, each for allegedly violating the city code.
An attorney for one man, Alexander Kouba, says his client will turn himself in and fight the charges.
The warrants involve supergraphics on a Hollywood Boulevard building across the street from where an ad for the movie “How to Train Your Dragon” was put up last week.
The building owner agreed to take it down after his arrest.
Information from: Los Angeles Times, www.latimes.com
