Elder abuse, fraud suspected at Carson home

Authorities say the house was operating as an unlicensed senior care facility.

- BY CIERRA MORGAN

ALLEN J. SCHABEN Los Angeles Times INVESTIGATORS moved 10 seniors from the West 234th Street home in Carson, center foreground.

Carson resident Evy Llamas recalled seeing furniture constantly moving in and out of the house down the street, new faces coming and going, and what appeared to be heavy clutter inside.

“There was a couple that was always there trying to clean up, looked like there was a lot of hoarding going on,” Llamas said. “But as far as what they found, you couldn't see that. You could not tell from out here what was going on in there.”

Llamas is retired and was home the day the deputies pulled up to his neighbor's house in the 200 block of West 234th Street. He watched as police cars and ambulances gathered outside the home.