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Carlos Pena's livelihood has been crippled. It remains to be seen if he'll have any right to compensation.

It took Carlos Pena decades to build his local business after immigrating to North Hollywood, California, from El Salvador. It only took a few hours to…

When police wreck an innocent person's property while protecting the public, the property owner shouldn't be left paying for all the damages.

Carlos Pena braced himself last summer as he stepped into the small business he'd spent more than three decades building from nothing. It had been 12 hours since a fugitive shoved Pena out of his print shop and barricaded himself inside and 51/2 hours since a Los Angeles Police Department SWAT team allegedly launched tear gas and stormed in, only to discover that the fugitive had eluded them.

The first sign of trouble was the police helicopter thumping above Carlos Pena’s print shop in North Hollywood last August, an officer barking orders over a loudspeaker. Alarmed by the commotion, Pena peeked out the door — and was yanked from the business by a fugitive who barricaded himself inside the NoHo Printing & Graphics shop on Lankershim Boulevard. Pena, 56, was ordered by deputy U.S. marshals to stand aside. He watched from a neighboring restaurant during the 13-hour standoff as an LAPD