Ventura
Felon Caught with Firearm
Ventura County – The terms of felony probation and parole in California commonly provide for a strict prohibition against the possession of weapons of any sort by parolees, particularly firearms. This
Teen Arsonists Arrested
Ventura County – The Ventura-Ojai Bike Trail is one of the most bucolic and scenic bike routes in Southern California, but on May 18th it was a crime scene as two
One Captured, Another “Armed and Dangerous”
Ventura County – The quiet town of Santa Paula was anything but in the early evening hours of May 8th when local police officers on routine patrol spotted a Ford Expedition
Imaginary People Behind Arson and Assault Charges
Santa Barbara County – While it’s common knowledge that not all criminal activity is the product of masterful planning or even rational thinking, the felonies allegedly committed by Stephen Howland, 62,
Child Annoying Suspect Caught
Ventura County – A 14-year-old Thousand Oaks girl, according to Ventura County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Det. Eric Taylor, was walking through an open “flood control channel” are of Newbury Park at
Can’t Outrun Cops, Even at 150 mph
Ventura County – Simi Valley, long considered one of the nation’s safest communities from a crime rate standpoint—a distinction perhaps enjoyed by the area for the past twenty years as the
Police Call for Help in Burglary-Rape
Ventura County – In an unusually aggressive effort to locate the perpetrator of what can only be described as a broad daylight “nightmare right out of the movies” crime, the Ventura
High School Softball Coach Charged with Sexual Assault
Ventura County – Newbury Park resident Robert Garza, 37, who has served as a “walk on” coach at Westlake High School for the girls’ softball team and the boys’ Junior Varsity
Senior Sexual Assailant Arrested Despite Bad Witness Description
Ventura County – The City of Camarillo was set on a razor’s edge of anxiety on the afternoon of March 31, 2014, when a woman doing her grocery shopping at the
Good Tips Lead to Good Busts
Ventura County – The quiet community of Santa Paula in the Santa Clara Valley—known as the “Citrus Capital of the World” and home to fewer than 30,000 souls—is also home to
