Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Benito Flores said he will stay in his tree house while facing eviction at his "reclaimed" house on Shelley Street in El Sereno on ...

Benito Flores, a 70-year-old man who illegally seized a state-owned home more than five years ago in El Sereno, is protesting his eviction and holing up in a tree house he built in the backyard.

Before the sun rose Tuesday, Benito Flores fortified the front door of his one-bedroom duplex on a narrow street in El Sereno. Flores, a 70-year-old retired welder, had illegally seized a home five ...