Ventura County Crime Briefs
Tuesday March 11, 2025
Oxnard police have arrested a suspect in a murder that happened in late February.
24-year-old Gonzalo Garciarodriguez of Salinas was arrested Tuesday in connection with the February 23rd fatal stabbing of 26-year-old Eugenio Lopez Ramirez of Oxnard.
Ramirez was found that night in the 100 block of Wilson Avenue in Oxnard suffering from multiple stab wounds.
He died later at VCMC.
Major Crimes detectives spent two weeks developing information that led them to arrest Garciarodriquez for murder.
He was arrested for the Ramirez homicide while already in the Ventura County Jail where he had been since February 27th for a domestic violence crime that occurred back on February 5th allegedly involving assault with a deadly weapon and false imprisonment by force.
He had pleaded not guilty in that case.
Meanwhile, he is due in court Thursday on the murder case and is now being held without bail.
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A Thousand Oaks man has been arrested following a small explosion at his home Tuesday afternoon.
Firefighters, deputies, and the bomb squad responded to a single family home in the 2000 block of Hendrix Avenue around 3:40 PM after a report of an explosion.
They found a 66-year-old man who lived there with his parents who had suffered a hand injury in the explosion.
He was taken to Los Robles Medical Center and treated for the jury and then booked into the Ventura County Jail.
Deputies say the man had been mixed two substances together to make some sort of explosive substance when it was ignited by a flame and he was injured.
They think he might have been trying to make homemade fireworks.
No one else was injured and while his elderly parents were displaced by the incident they were allowed back in once the bomb squad had cleared the scene of anything dangerous.
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The Oxnard man accused of sexually assaulting a woman on a public transit district bus has pleaded not guilty.
49-year-old Miguel Angel Salgado Rodriguez is alleged to have sexually assaulted the 37-year-old Ventura woman who told deputies that she had been attacked by a stranger during a bus ride from Camarillo to Ventura on Friday March 7th.
With the help of the transit district, they were able to use transaction history and security video from inside the bus to identify a suspect.
The information revealed when the suspect usually used the bus.
Rodriguez was located two days later waiting for a bus in the 2700 block of Johnson Drive in Ventura and he was taken into custody.
Deputies say they found property on him that was evidence he was the person they were looking for.
Rodriguez remains in the Ventura County Jail with bail set at $500,000 and is due back in court later this month.
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Detectives in Thousand Oaks are looking for the suspects who stole more than $100,000 in a burglary late Monday afternoon.
There was an alarm call at a residence in a gated community on Ventu Park Road and Ramona Drive.
Deputies and the home owners arrived to find that the suspects had entered the home by smashing a rear sliding glass door.
They took jewelry and cash totaling more than $100,000 and then fled before deputies or the homeowner arrived on scene.
