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Central Coast woman sentenced for embezzling more than $750,000

Written on 25 Jun, 2024 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 5 comments

By JOSH FRIEDMAN A Ventura County judge sentenced a Central Coast woman to four years and four months in prison for embezzling more than $750,000, much of which she used to live a lavish lifestyle.  In Oct. 2016, Neydi Garcia... (Continue reading)

Central Coast DUI crash sends sheriff’s SUV airborne, lands next to ocean

Written on 18 Dec, 2023 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

  By JOSH FRIEDMAN An allegedly intoxicated driver slammed into a Ventura County Sheriff’s patrol SUV Saturday evening, resulting in the vehicle falling onto boulders beside the ocean.  Deputy Castaneda and his K-9, two-year-old Dutch Shepherd Danny, were responding to... (Continue reading)

Republican presidential candidates to debate in California

Written on 27 Sep, 2023 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 12 comments

By JOSH FRIEDMAN Seven Republican presidential candidates will debate Wednesday evening in Simi Valley, while frontrunner and former President Donald Trump will be absent from the event taking place at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Candidates Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis,... (Continue reading)

Central Coast mother convicted of torturing and murdering her toddler

Written on 12 Dec, 2018 in Daily Briefs, Featured | No comments

An Oxnard mother who had twice lost custody of her young daughter tortured and murdered her three-year-old girl in 2015, a Ventura County Jury decided on Monday. [Cal Coast Times] The jury convicted Mayra Alejandra Chavez of second-degree murder, torture... (Continue reading)

Stabbing outside California mosque leads to hate crime charges

Written on 12 Dec, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

Police arrested a Southern California man on hate crime charges after he allegedly stabbed a Muslim man who was leaving a mosque with his family. [KABC] On Saturday night, John Matteson, 29, and an unidentified suspect tried to enter a... (Continue reading)

Cross-county Central Coast chase ends in fiery wreck

Written on 14 Sep, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 9 comments

An approximately 100-mile police chase that spanned large portions of Ventura and Santa Barbara counties ended in a fiery crash in Oxnard Tuesday. A man driving a stolen vehicle with paper license plates led officers from the city of Ventura... (Continue reading)

Illegal marijuana grow utilized stolen water

Written on 30 Jul, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 13 comments

The owners of a multi-million dollar illegal marijuana grow in Ventura County allegedly stole water to irrigate the pot plants from a nearby mountain. [KCOY] On Friday, Ventra County Sheriff deputies raided the 80 acre operation outside Fillmore that included... (Continue reading)

New area code coming to San Luis Obispo County

Written on 26 Jun, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 15 comments

The California Public Utilities Commission is planning to introduce a new area code to the 805, which includes most of San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, as well as small portions of Monterey and Kern counties. The 805... (Continue reading)

Thousands of gallons of oil spill in Ventura

Written on 24 Jun, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | No comments

Nearly 30,000 gallons of crude oil spilled from a Ventura pipeline in Hall Canyon early Thursday morning. The oil traveled down a gorge that leads to the beach, but firefighters prevented the crude from spilling into the ocean. Around 5:30... (Continue reading)

Two die as homebuilt plane crashes in Ventura County

Written on 30 May, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 4 comments

A homebuilt plane crashed in a lemon orchard in Ventura County Saturday afternoon, killing both of the people onboard. The crash occurred in Santa Paula, just north of the city of Ventura. [KABC] On the way down, the plane collided... (Continue reading)