Slumlord Gets 6 Months in Jail, $17,552 in Fines
A convicted slumlord was sentenced to six months in County Jail and ordered to pay $17,552 in penalties because of the substandard conditions at two of his apartment buildings.
Timothy Michael Preis, 39, of Northridge, also received three years’ probation from Municipal Court Judge J. Stephen Czuleger, who further ordered Pries to end his ownership of the two buildings, at 4020 S. San Pedro St. in South Los Angeles and 2616 Idell St. in Glassell Park.
Preis was found guilty of 33 building, safety and health-code violations at the two buildings. He has two prior convictions for slum conditions at other properties he owns, and last spring was among 142 defendants in a civil suit by the Los Angeles city attorney and public-interest lawyers charging racketeering and fraud in the financing and ownership of city slum buildings.
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