VAN NUYS — As counsel to the Colombian consulate in Beverly Hills, now-Commissioner Maria Byrum gave legal advice to visitors from the South American nation, sometimes under the most dire of circumstances.
“If someone dies here and their family is in Colombia and they don’t know what to do, I would be involved in that,” she said. “Or if their body is at the morgue, how do you get them out and how do you prove you are who ... (continued)