INCIDENT:	Assault with a Deadly Weapon (Shooting)
DATE/TIME:	January 25, 2009 at 8:40 p.m.
LOCATION:	Ventura Road in the area of Date Street
VICTIM/S:	25 year-old Oxnard resident
SUSPECT/S:	2 Hispanic males wearing dark polo shirts
SUSPECT VEHICLE:	None seen
PREPARED BY:	Sergeant Terry Burr

DETAILS: 

On January 25, 2009 at 8:40 p.m. officers from the Oxnard Police Department responded to a call of a shooting victim in the area of Hemlock Street and Ventura Road. Upon officers’ arrival they contacted the victim on the frontage road of Ventura Road at Date Street. The victim was suffering from at least gunshot wound. The victim was transported to St. John’s Regional Medical Center where he was rushed into surgery in serious condition.

During the investigation officers learned that the victim was walking home from the area of Channel Islands Blvd. and Ventura Road. He was confronted by two suspects. Both suspects remove handguns and discharged several rounds towards the victim. Investigators do not know the motive for the shooting.

Anyone with information about this shooting are asked to call Detective Jeff Long at (805) 486-6506 or the Violent Crimes Hotline at (805) 982-7070.

An investigation is continuing.

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DATE: 1-25-2009

INCIDENT:	Gang Related Arrests
DATE/TIME:	1/28/09 at 1120 hours
LOCATION:	200 block of Everest Street
VICTIM/S:	State of California
SUSPECT/S:	Juan Manuel Rosas, 22 years, of Oxnard Joseph Michael Peralta, 18 years, of Oxnard
PREPARED BY:	Commander Mike Adair

DETAILS: 

On 1/28/09 at approximately 1120 hours, Oxnard Police Officer Ricky Vega was patrolling the Rose Park area of Oxnard when a white vehicle caught his attention. The vehicle was driving slowly towards a group of males standing near a house in the area. The officer recognized the occupants of the vehicle as gang members of a rival gang and proceeded to make a traffic stop on the vehicle. The vehicle made a sudden evasive turn onto another street and stopped.

As Officer Vega stopped behind the vehicle, the front passenger jumped out of the vehicle and ran. Officer Vega held the driver of the vehicle at gunpoint while maintaining a view of the fleeing passenger. As the passenger ran from the vehicle, he removed a handgun from his waistband and threw it to the ground.

Back-up officers arrived and assisted with arresting the driver, Juan Rosas. A short time later the passenger, Joseph Peralta was found a few blocks away and arrested. The gun was located and taken as evidence. There is little doubt the actions of Officer Vega prevented a potential drive-by shooting.

Both suspects were booked into the Ventura County Jail. Rosas is being held on a no-bail parole violation; Peralta is facing several charges including possession of a loaded firearm and criminal activity in the furtherance of a criminal street gang. His bail is set at $100,000.

An investigation is continuing.

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DATE: January 28, 2009

INCIDENT:	Fight Involving Gun – Suspect Arrested
DATE/TIME:	01/18/2009 @ 2127 hours
LOCATION:	1300 block of Commercial Avenue, Oxnard
VICTIM/S:	Leonel Madrigal, 26 years, of Oxnard
SUSPECT/S:	Filiberto Mata, 19 years, of Oxnard
PREPARED BY:	Officer Edward Idukas

DETAILS: 

Oxnard police received a call of a large fight involving a knife in the 1300 block of Commercial Avenue on Sunday (January 18) night at 9:27 p.m. A total of ten Oxnard officers responded to this incident. Upon arrival, officers located a large group standing around an injured subject in the roadway with several unspent rounds of ammunition strewn about him. What officers quickly determined was that the injured party was the suspect in an assault with a deadly weapon, not the victim.

According to statements obtained by officers from parties on scene, Victim Madrigal and Suspect Mata have had an ongoing feud of some type. Tonight, Suspect Mata walked to the residence of Victim Madrigal and pulled out a small caliber handgun.

Due to either his inability to properly handle the weapon or his obviously drunken state, Suspect Mata pulled the loaded handgun from his waistband and pointed it at his intended victim, but Mata was unable to effectively deal with an apparent malfunction of the handgun and ejected several live rounds from the weapon onto the ground. Victim Madrigal quickly disarmed Mata of his handgun.

Mata then pulled out a knife but Madrigal was also able to wrestle the knife away. During the knife disarming, Madrigal sustained a superficial cut to his hand from the knife blade. After this confrontation, Mata was restrained by a crowd of nearby residents who held the suspect until the arrival of police. Police quickly recovered the loaded handgun and knife used by Mata without incident.

During his detention by bystanders, Mata suffered several contusions to his face and head. He was treated for his injuries at Ventura County Medical Center and was later booked into the Ventura County Jail on charges of assault with a deadly weapon, possession of a loaded firearm and drawing/exhibiting a firearm in a threatening manner. His bail was set at $25,000.

Victim Madrigal did not require medical treatment for his injury. An investigation is continuing.

DATE: 01/19/2009 at 0340 hours.

INCIDENT:	Oxnard Police Announce Roadway Vending Enforcement
DATE/TIME:	January 14, 2009
LOCATION:	Citywide
PREPARED BY:	Tom Chronister, Commander

DETAILS: 

A ban on vending from vehicles or structures and a ban on selling vehicles or structures on Oxnard’s roadways will be enforced beginning March 1, 2009 by the Oxnard Police Department.

On January 1, 2008, California Streets and Highways Code section 731 was amended by the State legislature to allow enforcement by local law enforcement agencies. Section 731 prohibits, among other things, the selling of vehicles on any highway. Violation of this section is a misdemeanor and vehicles can be removed as a nuisance.

A vehicle or structure may be removed from any highway as a public nuisance when:

1. It is parked for the purpose of selling the vehicle or structure, or
2. The vehicle or structure is used to sell any article, service or thing.

It is a misdemeanor for any person to park any vehicle or structure within a highway for:

1. The purpose of selling that vehicle or structure, or
2. The purpose of selling any article or thing.

It is a misdemeanor for any person to:

1. Sell, display for sale or offer for sale any article or thing either in or from a vehicle or structure parked or placed within a highway, or
2. Store, service, repair or otherwise work upon any vehicle parked or placed within a highway, other than upon a vehicle which is temporarily disabled.

After a 30-day grace period, Oxnard officers will begin enforcing the provisions of this Code within the city limits. Vehicles such as ice cream trucks typically conduct curbside sales, are mobile in nature and are therefore regulated separately by the Vehicle Code.

The intent of the section is to dissuade people from using highways for the sole purpose of selling vehicles or selling articles/things from vehicles or structures.

The full text of California Streets and Highways Code section 731 is available online at the State of California Legislative Counsel Web site, http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/.

For additional information, please contact Traffic Unit Sergeant Randey Cole at (805) 385-7847.

 

INCIDENT:	Meth Lab Discovered
DATE/TIME:	01/11/2009 @ 1809 hours
LOCATION:	3000 block of Circle Drive, Oxnard
SUSPECT/S:	Jonathan Leonard Douglass, 33 years, of Oxnard
PREPARED BY:	Commander Tom Chronister

DETAILS: 

An anonymous call to police yesterday evening resulted in the discovery of a small-scale methamphetamine manufacturing laboratory and the arrest of a 33 year-old Oxnard man.

Oxnard police received a call Sunday shortly after 6:00 p.m. about a possible meth lab in a residence in the 3000 block of Circle Drive. Officers made entry into the home and discovered the small-scale lab in one of the bedrooms of a single-family dwelling.

Officers arrested Jonathan Leonard Douglass upon his return to the residence without incident.

Officers remained on scene until this morning when investigators with the California’s Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement arrived to dismantle the lab.

Douglass was booked into the Ventura County Jail on the following charges:

• Under the influence of a controlled substance 
• Possession of narcotic paraphernalia 
• Attempted manufacture of a controlled substance

Douglass remains in custody this evening with bail set at $50,000.

DATE: 01/12/2009 at 2110 hours.