SHERMAN OAKS : Man Gets 3 Months for Trespassing
A man was sentenced to three months in jail after being convicted for a second time in less than three weeks of trespassing in earthquake-damaged buildings, authorities said Thursday.
Rabindranath Goswami, 24, was taken into custody Wednesday to begin serving his jail term after a court commissioner found that the Silver Lake man had violated his probation.
Goswami was convicted March 1 for trespassing and spent four days in jail. Also, a court ordered him to stay away from buildings damaged during the Jan. 17 earthquake.
But Goswami ignored the judicial order and entered a red-tagged building that had been fenced off. He was arrested for the second time last weekend when neighbors saw Goswami near an abandoned building in the 4300 block of Mammoth Avenue in Sherman Oaks.
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