DOWNEY — Officers from two law enforcement agencies surrounded Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey tonight in response to a fight at the recently reopened facility.
Officers from the Downey Police Department and the Lakewood Sheriff’s Station responded after 9 p.m. to the juvenile hall after the Downey Police Department called for assistance after a fight broke out, NBC 4 reported.
A spokeswoman with the Los Angeles County Probation Department, which runs the facility, told City News Service “we are still gathering information” about the fight.
NBC 4 reported officers and deputies were searching the nearby neighborhoods and Los Amigos Golf Course to see if any of the juveniles housed at Los Padrinos had escaped during the fight.
KCAL reported there were injuries but that had not been confirmed.
Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall reopened this month with 274 pre-disposition youths previously housed at Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Sylmar and Central Juvenile Hall in Boyle Heights transferred to the 26-acre campus in Downey.