By F. Scott Faulkner
November 10, 2025 – Ventura County, CA
A months-long string of office burglaries and identity-theft cases across Ventura and Los
Angeles counties came to a halt November 6 with the arrest of Anthony Fierro, 59, of
Bellflower, after he struck again at a Thousand Oaks medical office.
According to Ventura County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Detective Daniel Smallwood, the
trouble began July 3, 2025, when a woman working inside a Thousand Oaks office building
“discovered her wallet missing.”
By the time she reached her bank, her credit cards had already
been run through stores in Los Angeles County. Detectives with the VCSD East County
Investigations Bureau’s Property Crimes Unit took the case, initially unaware that it was part of a
larger pattern of burglaries and identity thefts.
That pattern became clear on October 10 and 13 when “the same suspect” slipped into several
medical offices during business hours, stealthily “lifting wallets from employees’ purses and
work bags.”
Credit cards stolen during those visits were later used to buy merchandise in
Thousand Oaks, Moorpark, Camarillo and Simi Valley.
On November 6, detectives determined that the suspect returned to Thousand Oaks and “stole
another wallet from a medical worker who was busy performing a procedure.” Moments later,
that victim’s credit card was used at a nearby department store.
VCSD’s East County Investigations Unit property-crimes detectives, once alerted to the theft,
moved quickly. They spotted Fierro walking out of the store “with newly purchased goods and
the victim’s credit cards still in his pocket.”
He was taken into custody without further incident.
Fierro was transported to Ventura County Jail, where he was booked on multiple felony burglary
and identity-theft charges with his bail set at $400,000.
