A man who authorities said used a chainsaw to cut down 13 trees — primarily in downtown Los Angeles — pleaded no contest Wednesday to vandalism charges and was immediately sentenced to two years ...

Samuel Patrick Groft was sentenced to two years in jail after pleading no contest to using a chainsaw to cut down 13 trees in ...

Samuel Patrick Groft received a 2-year sentence after a chainsaw vandalism spree that destroyed multiple LA trees.

In tree-starved downtown Los Angeles, taking a chainsaw to the shade now carries real jail time. Samuel Patrick Groft, 45, was sentenced Wednesday to two years in county jail after authorities say he ...

YouTube star Philip DeFranco, who is known online as PhillyD and has 6.62 million subscribers, is embroiled in a controversy his wife, Lindsay, is calling "TreeGate." In a TikTok video that has 3 ...