(L.A.) Sareth Sin, 67, Died in a Shed

Case Number: 2020-12241

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The Government of Los Angeles County is notifying the public about the death of a 67-year-old Asian male that occurred in a shed.

The coroner’s office has identified the man as Sareth Sin.

Manner of Death: Accident

Cause of Death: Carbon Monoxide Toxicity

RIP SARETH SIN (August 4, 1953 – December 25, 2020)

Formal pronouncement of death was made on Friday at 12:11 p.m.

The decedent’s name is possibly Cambodian or Hmong.

He died upright, seated in a plastic chair, on Christmas Day. He was asphyxiated by fumes from the generator he ran to chase the desert chill out of a cannabis greenhouse on the eastern edge of L.A. County.

News story in the Los Angeles Times: latimes.com/california/story/2022-12-22/the-exploitation-violence-and-desperation-that-produces-the-pot-you-smoke-and-eat

A detailed report by the government investigator and medical examiner on this case may be purchased from L.A. County for 67 dollars. This includes field notes on the circumstances of the death.

me.lacounty.gov/purchase-case-documents/?caseNumber=2020-12241

To confirm case details provided on this page, call the county’s Records section at (323) 343-0714.