New Charges Filed Against Operators of Trailer Park : Pacoima: The criminal counts alleging unsafe conditions bring the total to 39. A lawyer says the owner has taken steps to comply with the law.

Stepping up its attack on squalid conditions at a Pacoima mobile home park, the Los Angeles city attorney’s office filed another 25 criminal charges Tuesday against the park’s owner and manager.

The Pacoima Trailer Park has been cited by government housing inspectors more than 240 times in the past two years for violations including leaking sewage, outdoor piles of trash and dog feces, and unsafe electrical hookups. It is occupied mostly by poor Latinos living in 39 small trailers and cabins.

The park’s owner, Stuart Glazer of Westlake Village, and live-in manager, Martha Davidson, were originally charged last month with 14 misdemeanor criminal counts. Also charged was Glazer’s company, Old Britania Land Corp. Each count carries a maximum penalty of 30 days in jail and a $400 fine.

Deputy City Atty. Don Cocek said the additional 25 charges, which are also misdemeanors, were filed after an Aug. 28 inspection revealed new violations. They included numerous broken windows and doors, electrical panels without proper labels and porches without handrails.

Davidson could not be reached for comment. Glazer’s lawyer, Victor Kenton, said Glazer has “made every attempt” to maintain health and safety standards at the park.

“He’s got a maintenance staff out there, he’s on site very often and he’s given standing instructions to do all necessary repairs,” Kenton said.

He said that a state housing inspector, after examining the park earlier this week, found that the Aug. 28 violations have been corrected, along with the violations underlying the first 14 criminal charges. However, he acknowledged that correcting the violations does not necessarily invalidate the criminal charges.

The inspector, Charles Martin, could not be reached for comment.

In the past, inspectors also have found live electric wires lying in pools of water and improperly vented water heaters, which officials said could result in gas seeping inside trailers, where it might explode or suffocate tenants.

Some tenants have complained of broken toilets, cracked flooring and other problems, while nearby homeowners have said that the park is a magnet for drug sales and prostitution.

But other tenants have praised Glazer for improving conditions after he bought the park several years ago. They blamed fellow tenants for graffiti, trash and other problems.

Kenton complained that the case has been exploited for political gain by City Atty. James K. Hahn and state Assemblyman Richard Katz (D-Sylmar). Both officials denounced Glazer at a news conferences outside the trailer park.

Katz replied that “if the owner spent as much money cleaning up the trailer park as he did on lawyers, all the folks would have a better place to live.”