Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet

• Violent Femmes^[10]
• Eric Wilson of Sublime^[11]

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]