Man Accused of Breaking Into LA Mayor’s House Says He Didn’t Know It Was Hers
Published on May 14, 2024
The man accused of breaking into Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’s mansion in April told a local radio station he was on a five-day drug binge at the time and didn’t know it was her house. In an exclusive interview with reporter Jon Baird of KNX News on May 13, Ephraim Matthew Hunter, 29, said he has no interest in politics and can’t even vote. “He didn’t target her,” Mr. Baird said in a report Monday. Police arrested Mr. Hunter on April 21 after a 6:40 a.m. break-in, when he allegedly broke a glass door and entered the Getty House, the official mayor’s residence in Windsor Square, about five miles west of Los Angeles City Hall....