Pinkberry Co-founder Arrested For Assault
Posted by Sandra Bautista on Jan 19, 2012 - 6:15:02 PM
LOS ANGELES—On
Monday January 16, Young Lee, a co-founder of Pinkberry was arrested by the LAX Fugitive Task Force because of a pending felony warrant. Lee is being
charged with aggravated assault to a homeless man.
Police
records indicate that Lee was seen by witnesses chasing and beating down the
homeless man after engaging in words with this man who was begging for change
at the offramp of the 101 freeway and Vermont Avenue.The homeless man required hospitalization
with several cuts to the head and a broken arm. It is believed that Mr. Lee was
not alone and had a companion at the time of the assault.
Mr. Young Lee Co-founder of Pinkberry
Courtesy of ABC News
According
to the LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department), Lee was arrested at the Los Angeles Airport as detectives from the
Fugitive Task Force and the FBI waited for him at the airport and then
proceeded to arrest him. This arrest was possible after federal databases sent
an alert to the detectives informing them that Young Lee was inbound on a flight
from Korea to LAX.Lee was released on a
$60,000 bail.
While
this arrest was immediately linked to Pinkberry, the company immediately
issued a company statement in response to Lee’s arrest on their official blog
and official Twitter.
The
statement reads, “Mr Young Lee has no involvement with Pinkberry, our partners
or our more than 170 stores world-wide. Pinkberry ended its ties with Mr. Lee
formally on May 1, 2010. He has no influence or input into the company in
anyway, and the parties have not been communicating with one another since Mr.
Lee’s exit.”
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