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Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet
Flea market and music venue in California From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet is a flea market and music venue in Santa Fe Springs, California.[2][3] It predominantly caters to Mexican Americans and Chicano culture,[4] selling food and beverages, art, clothing, household goods, and more unusual products.[5][6] As a music venue, the Swap Meet is largely known for featuring tribute acts,[7][8] but also features shows by prominent Latin music groups and other well-known musicians.[9]
After being founded as a drive-in theater in the 1940s, the Swap Meet eventually transitioned into the flea market that it is today. It has since built up a dedicated following of Southern California residents.[1]
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In 2006, the Swap Meet was subject to a police raid to seize potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of counterfeit consumer goods.[12] In 2016, the site became host to illegal street racing, following which a threatening young street racer was shot by California Highway Patrol.[13]
On October 17, 2014, forty-three-year old Elizabeth Yanez was stabbed to death in the site's parking lot by twenty-two-year old Reggie Cervantes.[14] The two had gotten into a verbal confrontation over a parking space, which came to involve Yanez's two adult children and a companion of Cervantes.[15] Charges against this second co-defendant, nineteen year old Brenda Rangel, were subsequently dropped,[16] and Cervantes was convicted of voluntary manslaughter.[17] He was sentenced to thirteen years in state prison in January 2016.[18]
On June 14, 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in tactical gear raided the Swap Meet,[19] arresting a number of people alleged to be illegal immigrants.[20] The concert scheduled for that night was later postponed.[21][22]
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