Coast Guard Copter From Ventura County Conducts Cruise Ship Rescue, and more stories
Monday October 14, 2024
(Above photos courtesy USCG)
A Coast Guard helicopter stationed in Ventura County conducted a medical rescue of a passenger on board a cruise ship in the ocean off Los Angeles Sunday afternoon.
The 63-year-old man suffering what the Coast Guard described as severe abdominal pain was on the cruise ship Grand Princess 170 miles off the coast of Los Angeles.
The MH-60 Jayhawk copter from Coast Guard Air Station Ventura conducted the medevac operation by hoisting the man from the deck of the ship and than air lifting him to Torrance Memorial Hospital.
The Coast Guard says this was the first rescue conducted by the newly established Coast Guard Air Station Ventura.
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(Photo courtesy PHPD)
Port Hueneme police are investigating the shooting of a 15-year-old boy.
Shortly after 8:30 Sunday night officers responded to a report of multiple shots fired in the 300 block of Hueneme Road.
While they were on scene they then were told of a 15-year-old male victim with a gunshot would to his leg at Saint John’s Medical Center.
He was then transferred to VCMC in stable condition.
Port Hueneme police detectives are now trying to determine who shot him and why.
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(Photo courtesy VCSO)
Ventura County authorities say they’ve arrested two San Fernando Valley residents in connection with the sale of both legitimate pharmaceutical pills and other illegal drugs.
The illegal drugs included meth, fentanyl, and heroin.
The investigation included observing street sales in Ventura County and also serving a search warrant at the suspects's residence in the 5300 block of Yarmouth Avenue in Encino.
Detectives say that in the residence they found almost 5800 Xanax pills, about a quarter pound of meth, 2 ounces of fentanyl, 2 ounces of heroin, and an assortment of other drugs including MDMA, Ketamine, and other legitimate pills.
They say one of the two subjects was in the process of trying to destroy several large bags of narcotics when detectives arrived.
Investigators say that the two men, both in their late 20’s, were not only conducting street sales in Ventura County but also using social media platforms to sell the drugs.
