A mother’s search for missing son leads to dark world of a marijuana dispensary By Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times
Published: February 21, 2021, 5:00pm
Share: A Los Angeles Police Department missing person notification for Juan Carlos Hernandez hangs across the street from where he worked at VIP Collective marijuana dispensary along the 8100 block of Western Ave. Yajaira Hernandez s 21-year-old son, Juan Carlos Hernandez, went to work one afternoon in September 2020 and never came home, on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. She looked for her son for nearly two months, until the police told her they d found his remains in the Mojave desert, 150 miles from where he was last seen at his job at a marijuana dispensary in South Los Angeles. (Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times/TNS)