The Region - News from July 5, 1987

The owner of four slum apartment buildings in Los Angeles was sentenced to one month in jail and ordered to pay $12,600 in fines as well as repair his buildings, the city attorney’s office announced. Neil Bleuler, 41, of San Francisco was convicted of violating 85 fire, health and building and safety codes. Violations at his apartments in the Pico-Union, Koreatown and Cypress Park sections of Los Angeles included vermin infestation, the lack of quick-release devices on window bars, defective fire escapes, exposed live wires and appliances without gas shut-off valves. Bleuler was ordered to begin serving his jail sentence on Aug. 31 and to have the four buildings in compliance with codes by the same date.