There was no magic to protect this Echo Park gas station from vandals

The new owners of Magic Gas in Echo Park had put up signs earlier this week announcing that they had finally been able to get all the fuel pumps working again. But this morning Zina Mikayelyan arrived to find that all the nozzles to the pumps had been stolen over night and that wires to the security cameras had been severed. One man at the station said the nozzles cost about $800 each. Mikayelyan was left in tears. Read more.