A driver died in a single-vehicle crash on East Vineyard Avenue outside Oxnard early Thursday, according to California Highway Patrol reports. The incident was reported shortly after 3 a.m. near the cross with Montgomery Avenue, according to CHP and Ventura County Fire Department logs. The site is just outside city limits in a commercial and […]
Man arrested in Oxnard teen’s death A 29-year-old Oxnard man was arrested Monday in connection with an April shooting that left a 17-year-old dead. Already in Ventura County jail on an unrelated felony vandalism offense, Jose Alberto Salazar is now facing a murder charge in the death of Miguel Angel Garcia and other gun-related charges, […]
Here’s a roundup of recent incidents and announcements from Ventura County agencies: Pasadena man charged with hijacking in Camarillo A woman’s car was hijacked last month outside a hamburger restaurant in Camarillo but found in Los Angeles and the suspect charged with three related felonies. Identified as a 28-year-old Pasadena man, the suspect allegedly approached […]
Here’s a roundup of recent incidents and announcements from Ventura County agencies: Dive team nabs sunken gun A handgun that authorities believe may have been used during a recent shooting in Oxnard was pulled from Channel Islands Harbor by a special team of divers. On Tuesday morning, the Ventura County Sheriff’s dive team, staffed by […]
The Ventura County District Attorney’s Office said Tuesday two separate police shootings it investigated, one in 2022 and the other in 2023, were both justified uses of deadly force and will not be prosecuted. The first incident was the fatal Simi Valley police shooting of Derrick Padilla in 2022. Padilla was a suspect in his […]
Here’s a roundup of recent incidents and announcements from Ventura County agencies: Traffic stop by CHP leads to arrest of homicide suspect A California Highway Patrol officer arrested a 28-year-old man in Oxnard Monday on suspicion of armed robbery and a related homicide in the Bay Area. CHP officer Rolando Tejeda made the arrest around […]
Kayla Bouwens was excited to talk to Walter Fuller just before she and husband Kevin Bouwens left Ormond Beach at the end of a recent weekday. “There’s a lot of baby bunnies running around,” she told Fuller, who has volunteered for almost 30 years at the 2-mile beach in Oxnard that stretches between Port Hueneme […]
Car enthusiasts have only a few months to take in the grandeur that is the Murphy Auto Museum in Oxnard. The museum announced this week it will close for good in July. It’s a place that eases guests into its collection of antique and vintage vehicles. Visitors are first made giant by entering a room filled […]
A gang member was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a young father in Oxnard. David Guadalupe Calderon, 31, was convicted of murdering Edwin Herrera, 19, in a 2012 shooting, according to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office. On February 29, 2012, Calderon, who was a registered gang member, was driving through […]
A lucky — or unlucky — person was just one number off from getting all six numbers in Wednesday’s $1.09 billion Powerball jackpot with a ticket sold at a Ventura County liquor store. The $1.6 million winning ticket, which matched the first five digits, was bought at Oxnard Shores Bottle Shoppe, California State Lottery officials […]
A man was critically injured in a stabbing in Oxnard Tuesday evening. The incident was reported shortly after 5 p.m. in the 3000 block of Saviers Road, south of Channel Islands Boulevard, the Oxnard Police Department reported. Officers responded to a parking lot where they found the 41-year-old victim, an Oxnard resident, with multiple stab […]
Many Mansions is accepting applications for its downtown Oxnard affordable housing complex dubbed Central Terrace. The Thousand Oaks-based nonprofit will continue to take inquiries until April 15. Once the period closes, potential residents will be selected by a lottery on April 19. As of Wednesday afternoon, 50 people had applied. The application window opened on […]