KVTA News Files
Sunday March 30, 2025
The Ventura County Sheriff's Office says they've arrested a suspect in a carjacking that happened Sunday night.
Around 9:46 PM in the 700 block of Avenida De Los Arboles in Thousand Oaks there was an adult male who approached the adult male driver of a red Jeep Wrangler and told him he had a gun and wanted the victim's vehicle.
The victim complied and the suspect drove off in the vehicle.
The incident was reported to the authorities and the CHP spotted the vehicle on Los Angeles Avenue east of the 23 Freeway in Moorpark.
Believing the suspect was armed and still in the vehicle, the SWAT team was called out but when they entered the car they discovered it was empty.
So there was a search of the area using the drone and it spotted the suspect hiding in some bushes and he was taken into custody without incident.
No gun was ever found and no one was injured.
Both victim and suspect are adult males from Thousand Oaks.
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The Ventura County Sheriff’s Major Crimes detectives are investigating an attack on a couple in the unincorporated area of Nyeland Acres near Oxnard.
It happened late Saturday night in the 3700 block of Santa Clara Avenue.
Deputies responded to a report of a large fight but when they got there those involved had left the area.
They were approached by a man who said he and a female were attacked by a group of possible gang members.
The man suffered a five-inch knife cut on one of his forearms and a black eye.
The female had reportedly been pulled out of their vehicle by her hair.
The male victim was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
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Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s say they’ve arrested a Ventura County man in connection with an alleged indecent exposure near UCSB.
It was reported on February 26th in the area of Embarcadero Del Mar and Seville Road in Isla Vista.
They say the female victim actually took a picture of the suspect and immediately notified the authorities.
During a month long investigation deputies say they identified a 43-year-old Camarillo man as the suspect and last week they arrested him.
He was booked into the jail and then released on $10,000 bail.
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The United States Attorney’s Office says that an illegal immigrant with a criminal record was arrested last February 15th in Ventura County for repeatedly reentering this country illegally after being deported at least twice before.
They say that 24-year-old Aristeo Gonzalez Rosas of Mexico was arrested for violating a deportation order.
Federal authorities say that in 2022 Gonzalez Rosas was convicted in Ventura County of carrying a loaded firearm with a large capacity magazine and was sentenced to eight months behind bars.
He was arrested again in 2023 of being a felon or addict in possession of a firearm and sentenced to 16 months in California State Prison.
Gonzalez Rosas was then deported at the end of August last year and then again in September of last year.
And he is now facing deportation yet again.
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The CHP in Santa Barbara is asking the public for help as they investigate a fatal motorcycle crash.
The crash happened on December 6th around 9:47 PM on the southbound 101 just north of San Ysidro Road in Montecito.
A 32-year-old Inglewood man was riding his Suzuki motorcycle when for reasons still under investigation he collided with a tractor-trailer rig.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The incident created a traffic jam in that area of several hours after the crash.
The weather at the time was clear, cool, and dry.
Anyone with information that might help the CHP in the investigation is asked to call the CHP Office in Santa Barbara at (805) 770-4800 and ask for Officer Bell.
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Oxnard police will be spending Monday conducting a special enforcement operation in that city regarding distracted driving.
At the heart of California’s distracted driving law is the ban on drivers talking, texting, or using an APP on their cell phones and other devices unless they do so without having to touch the phone or device in any way.
Violating the “hands free” cell phone law will get you fined and if you get caught doing it again within 36 months it’ll go on your driving record.
But the authorities say distracted driving can take many forms like eating or drinking while driving or putting on your make-up or doing anything that takes your eyes and your mind off the roadway.
