$5,000 Reward Offered in Cross-Burning Incident

The Board of Supervisors has approved a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those who threw a burning cross onto the driveway of an interracial family in Sunland-Tujunga last week.

Last Thursday night, a witness saw a car full of people drive up in front of the house and heard racial epithets shouted before the six-foot cross was flung outside and the vehicle sped away, police said. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has joined the Los Angeles Police Department in probing the hate crime.

Supervisor Mike Antonovich, who represents the area, directed Los Angeles County’s Human Relations Commission to study the incident, along with posting the reward. “These cowardly and abhorrent acts of violence are intolerable and every effort should be made to bring the guilty parties to justice,” reads his motion, which passed unanimously.