Home  »  Archives

Articles Tagged With ‘Ventura Police Department’




Ventura woman arrested for beating officer with big stick

Written on 24 Apr, 2017 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 8 comments

A woman with a four-foot stick interrupted a traffic stop in Ventura on Saturday and attacked an officer. Despite coming in the line of fire of a Taser, the woman managed to strike the officer with the stick before getting... (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)

2 injured in CVS armed robbery

Written on 13 Feb, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

Ventura police are searching for two men involved in a brutal armed robbery of a CVS store on Friday that sent two employees to the hospital. Both employees were in stable condition on Friday. At about 3:25 a.m., two mask... (Continue reading)

Central Coast hospital worker accused of sexual assault

Written on 24 Jan, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 12 comments

Ventura police arrested a 37-year-old man Thursday for allegedly sexually assaulting a patient at a Central Coast psychiatric hospital. [CBS] Police booked Juan Pablo Valencia into the Ventura County Jail for sexual contact with a confined person, sexual penetration of... (Continue reading)

Who would set fire to a homeless man?

Written on 19 Jan, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 4 comments

Ventura police are searching for three men who attempted to burn alive a homeless man, but were thwarted by the efforts of a good Samaritan. [NBC LA] Police say that 58-year-old John Frazier was sleeping near the San Buenaventura State... (Continue reading)

Ventura man stabs and kills toddler

Written on 3 Jan, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 28 comments

A 27-year-old Ventura man allegedly stabbed and killed his 1-year-old son before he stabbed himself on Friday. At 1:45 a.m., Adrian Navarrete-Gonzalez called 911 to report that his son was dead. Officers arrived to find the child dead with stab... (Continue reading)