Vernon

Workers at a Fashion Nova clothing warehouse in Vernon told The Times that ICE trucks had been spotted in the area and that they had heard agents planned to confront employees during a shift change.

Five miles away in Vernon, Manolo stood Thursday morning on the loading dock of the candle-making business he owns as employees loaded boxes of candles into the back of a black SUV.

He volunteered with a humanitarian organization and was involved with student government at Mt Vernon Junior High.

In 2006, he represented three men who moved to Vernon in an attempt to take over the City Council; they all lost.

������ is perhaps less obvious is that the smiling, 58-year-old explaining the Australian provenance of a tropical easy chair is a retired police chief who served in Bell, Irwindale and, most recently, Vernon.