Man arrested for alleged price gouging during coronavirus fears, selling box of N95 masks for $300

Baldwin Park police had received a tip about a Craigslist advertisement of N95 respirator masks for sale.
The listed price for a single box of 20 masks, which are currently in short supply in hospitals across the nation during the new coronavirus pandemic: $300.
Detectives wearing plain clothes and posing as buyers contacted the man behind the post and met with him on Tuesday morning at a shopping center parking lot in West Covina, police said. As a part of the ruse, the detectives exchanged the