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OXNARD POLICE DEPARTMENT
NEWS RELEASE
| INCIDENT: | Oxnard Violent Crimes Unit arrests two subjects for carjacking, kidnapping and street terrorism |
| DATE/TIME: | 5/2/2017; 2:00 P.M. |
| LOCATION: | Oxnard CA |
| VICTIMS: | 26 year old Oxnard resident |
| SUSPECT: | Joseph Salas, 18 year old Oxnard resident
Pedro Juarez, 19 year old Oxnard resident |
| PREPARED BY: | Detective Scott Coe |
| CONTACT PERSON AND CONTACT INFO: | Detective Jon Ballow
Jonathan.Ballow@oxnardpd.org (805) 288-3289 |
DETAILS:
On 4/3/2017, at 2116 hours, officers from the Oxnard Police Department were dispatched to 133 West Pleasant Valley Road in Oxnard reference a carjacking that occurred earlier. Officers contacted the victim, who stated he was seated in his vehicle in the 500 block of Cuesta Del Mar Drive when he was approached by four subjects. The victim described the suspects as four Hispanic males in their twenties. The victim stated one of the suspects was armed with a sawed off shotgun.
The suspects entered the victim’s vehicle and forced him to drive to the area of Pleasant Valley Road and Saviers Road where they assaulted and threatened him with the shotgun. The victim was able to flee from the vehicle and the suspects stole the victim’s vehicle.
On 4/14/2017, the victim’s vehicle was located unoccupied in the City of Ventura.
On 4/19/17, officers from the Oxnard Police Department Neighborhood Policing Team located a chrome and wooden sawed off shotgun hidden in the bushes in front of 527 Cuesta Del Mar Drive. This shotgun matched the description of the firearm used during this violent crime.
Investigators from the Oxnard Police Department’s Violent Crimes Unit (VCU) were able to identify two of the four suspects as 18 year old Joseph Salas and 19 year old Pedro Juarez, both Oxnard residents.
On 5/2/2017, VCU investigators arrested Salas at the Ventura County Jail where he was being held on an unrelated charge of carjacking. A short time later officers from the Oxnard Police Department Neighborhood Policing Team located and arrested Juarez in the 500 block of Cuesta Del Mar Drive.
Both Salas and Juarez were booked into the Ventura County Jail for carjacking, kidnapping and street terrorism. Salas and Juarez are both documented members of an Oxnard criminal street gang.
VCU investigators are continuing their investigation to identify the other two suspects.
If anyone has further information, they are encouraged to call Detective Jon Ballow at (805) 288-3289. If you wish to remain anonymous you may call the violent crimes hotline at (805) 982-7070 or Ventura County Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-8477. You can also visit this site http://www.venturacountycrimestoppers.org/contactus.aspx to submit a tip via text or email.
DATE / TIME PREPARED: May 02, 2017 / 1640 hours
Joseph Salas Pedro Juarez