Full Notification

On January 25, 2022, Detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Special Victims Bureau’s Los Angeles Regional Human Trafficking Task Force arrested KEN PARK (MO/59) , a local General Contractor, for failing to pay two adult male victims for work they performed for him on a construction job in April 2021.  Mr. Park intentionally paid the two adult day laborers with checks that he knew had insufficient funds to pay them.  Additionally, Mr. Park never completed work for the homeowner who paid him for the actual construction work in the Duarte area.  
 
The criminal case was originally presented to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, Notary Fraud Unit, who filed six felony counts, ranging from grand theft to intentionally writing a check with insufficient funds under Los Angeles County Superior Court case number ALHGA11138601 with a bail amount of $95,000.00.  Mr. Park was arrested in the city of La Mirada and was subsequently released on bail.    

The Los Angeles Regional Human Trafficking Task Force is seeking additional individuals who might have been victims of Mr. Ken Park.  Anyone with information regarding this case is urged to contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Special Victims Bureau, toll free tip line at (877) 710-5273 or by email at [email protected]. 
 
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Special Victims Bureau’s Los Angeles Regional Human Trafficking Task Force is tasked with investigating human trafficking of all kinds, including labor or wage theft.  Anyone with information about this incident is encouraged to contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Special Victims Bureau toll free tip line at (877) 710-5273 or by email at [email protected].  If you prefer to provide information anonymously, you may call "Crime Stoppers" by dialing (800) 222-TIPS (8477), or use your smartphone by downloading the “P3 Tips” Mobile APP or “P3 Mobile” for the hearing impaired on Google play or the App Store, or by using the website http://lacrimestoppers.org. 

Forwarded by:  
Deputy Alejandra Parra 
Sheriff's Information Bureau  
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department  
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Los Angeles California 90012  
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Alex Villanueva, Sheriff
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