HOLLYWOOD : Slum Charges Filed Against Building’s New Owners

Slum charges were filed Thursday against the owners of a Hollywood apartment building, which they received as a gift earlier this year from a convicted slumlord in violation of a judge’s order.

Named in the 35-count criminal complaint filed in Los Angeles Municipal Court were Alejandro Camacho, 24, and his wife, Tina, 30. They do business as Wyatt Properties and live at the four-story apartment house at 2017 Argyle Ave., said Deputy Dist. Atty. Richard Bobb.

The Camachos were given the property by Mark Savoy, 32, of Sherman Oaks, who pleaded guilty last year to 10 Building and Safety Code violations for slum conditions at the 72-unit building, the prosecutor said.

Savoy was sentenced by Los Angeles Municipal Judge Linda Lefkowitz to 120 days in jail and 160 hours of community service in a hospital emergency room.

Lefkowitz also ordered him to pay $15,748 in fines and costs and to refrain from transferring ownership of the property until repairs had been made.

But Savoy, who had acquired the building in October, 1991, did not make the repairs and transferred ownership of the property as a gift to the Camachos on July 28 of this year, Bobb said.

Lefkowitz subsequently found Savoy in violation of his probation and sentenced him to another 10 days in jail, said Bobb, who heads the city attorney’s Housing Enforcement Unit and coordinates the city Slum Housing Task Force.