In 2006, the Swap Meet was subject to a
police raid to seize potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of
counterfeit consumer goods. In 2016, the site became host to illegal
street racing, following which a threatening young street racer was shot by
California Highway Patrol. On October 17, 2014, forty-three-year old Elizabeth Yanez was stabbed to death in the site's parking lot by twenty-two-year old Reggie Cervantes. The two had gotten into a verbal confrontation over a parking space, which came to involve Yanez's two adult children and a companion of Cervantes. Charges against this second co-defendant, nineteen year old Brenda Rangel, were subsequently dropped, and Cervantes was convicted of
voluntary manslaughter. He was sentenced to thirteen years in state prison in January 2016. On June 14, 2025,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in
tactical gear raided the Swap Meet, arresting a number of people alleged to be
illegal immigrants. The concert scheduled for that night was later postponed. == References ==