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Blog Posts in March, 2011

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Co-founder of Asian Boyz gang sentenced to life in prison without parole

The co-founder of the Asian Boyz gang Marvin Mercado was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without parole. He was convicted of at least eight slayings and 10 shootings a decade ago in the San ...
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Businessman accused of embezzling money from Oxnard winery

Richard Bruce Keer, a businessman and former marketing consultant for the city of Oxnard, allegedly used stolen checks to embezzle more than $75,000 from Herzog Wine Cellars. Royal Wine Corp. ...
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Long Beach slaying of 29-year-old man from Chico

29-year-old man Philip Victor Williamson died after being shot last week in an alley in Long Beach. Williamson was found wounded in the alley in the 1500 Block of Pine Avenue on Thursday night by a ...
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Army private is ordered to stand trial on charges involving rape of half-sister Wednesday

Army private Daniel Jay Brazelton escaped from military custody in Georgia for a week while awaiting extradition to Los Angeles County in connection with the rape of his 15-year-old stepsister in ...
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Armed robbery at Hair salon in Oxnard

An armed robber in a ski mask robber stole a vase with coins inside from a beauty salon Tuesday in Oxnard. Allegedly, the man walked into Delia's Hair Fashion's at 10:46 a.m. He walked up to a ...
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Michael Lohan charged with misdemeanor domestic violence

Michael Lohan, the father of actress Lindsay Lohan, was charged Wednesday with misdemeanor domestic violence for an alleged assault on his live-in girlfriend Kate Majors. Lohan was charged with ...
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Federal officers seize ropes saturated with cocaine at LAX

Federal officers seized ropes and cords saturated with cocaine at Los Angeles International Airport Tuesday. The ropes and cords weighed about 20 pounds and were inside backpacks brought in March 15 ...
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Former Ventura College basketball coach Greg Winslow found guilty for three of seven felony counts

A jury today found Greg Winslow, the former men's basketball coach at a.inline_topic:hover { background-color: #EAEAEA; } Ventura College, guilty on three of seven felony counts. Winslow was found ...
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Man accused of robbing Ventura Quiznos

A 24-year-old man was arrested Sunday night on suspicion of robbing a Ventura Quiznos at gunpoint. Officers arrived within one minute of the 911 call and determined the robber had approached the ...
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Former U.S. immigration attorney sentenced for taking bribes to help illegal immigrants

Former federal immigration attorney Constantine Peter Kallas was convicted last year for accepting more than $400,000 in bribes in exchange for helping illegal immigrants remain in the United States. ...
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Three teens arrested in Newbury Park robbery

Thousand Oaks police arrested three teens Wednesday in connection with an armed robbery in Newbury Park on March 4. Allegedly the robbers surrounded the victim and ordered the victim to the ground ...
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Nude man caught on security video prowling around L.A. preschool

A naked man broke into Boyle Heights Centro de Alegria preschool March 6. Los Angeles police detectives are trying to identify the suspected burglar caught in the nude on security video. Allegedly he ...
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Oxnard suspect arrested in Santa Barbara County sexual attacks

On Dec. 4 two sexual assaults were reported in Santa Barbara County. A man entered an apartment sometime between 1:30 and 3 a.m. and sexually accosted an adult female sleeping in the living room. The ...
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Former L.A. fire captain found guilty of second-degree murder

A former Los Angeles fire captain David Del Toro was found guilty Thursday of second-degree murder in the killing of a woman Jennifer Flores at his Eagle Rock home. Del Toro met Flores years earlier ...
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Alleged "King of Heroin" pleads guilty to drug crimes

A 36-year-old Mexican drug king Jose Antonio Medina Arreguin pleaded guilty Wednesday in Ventura to conspiring to possess heroin for sale and is facing up to 24 years in prison. Arreguin also admitted ...
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National Lampoon chief arrested in alleged $200-million Ponzi scheme

The chief executive officer of National Lampoon Inc. Timothy Durham, was arrested Wednesday in West Hollywood for an alleged $200-million Ponzi scheme. Durham was accused in a federal grand jury ...
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Somis man arrested for murder

40-year-old Justo Mora Navarro was arrested for murder Saturday for the shotgun slaying of Gilberto Aguilera Feb. 1. Navarro will be arraigned April 27 for the murder. Navarro initially was booked ...
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Two gang members receive life terms for GameStop robberies

A judge sentenced two Family Swan Bloods gang members to life in person for a string of robberies at the GameStop video game retail chain that led to more than $1-million in losses. The crimes ...
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14-year-old Long Beach girl fights off foul-smelling attacker

A 14-year-old girl fought off a would-be assailant as she was walking to school in Long Beach on Monday morning. During the struggle the man allegedly exposed himself before fleeing. The teen was ...
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Mel Gibson accused of domestic violence against girlfriend

L.A. prosecutors charged in court papers that Mel Gibson "willfully and unlawfully [used] force and violence upon" his girlfriend. Gibson is expected to appear in court Friday afternoon to answer the ...
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Burglars steal $35,000 worth of computers from Buena High School

Burglars took $35,000 worth of computers from Buena High School in Ventura sometime between 10:30 p.m. Tuesday and 4 a.m. Wednesday. Burglars forced their way into a locked classroom at Buena and took ...
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Two LAPD officers plead guilty to auto insurance fraud

Two Los Angeles police officers Friday pleaded guilty to charges of insurance fraud. One of the officers, Anthony Robert Villanueva, admitted that last April he arranged to have his 2001 Lexus sedan ...
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Whittier teacher arrested on suspicion of lewd acts on a middle school student

Police arrested a Whittier teacher, Jesse Anthony Serrato, on suspicion of having an inappropriate relationship with a student. Police were contacted Tuesday by East Wittier Middle School after ...
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Reward to be offered in murder of husband and wife in South L.A.

A married couple, Sulema and Jerriell Wilborn, were driving in South Los Angeles in August when an attacker fired a gun for no apparent reason and killed them. As she was shot, Sulema Wilborn ...
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Residential burglary in Oxnard

A man, Evaristo Santos Paredes, was arrested Thursday morning after a residential burglary in an occupied home in Oxnard. The burglar removed security bars from a window to get in. A woman was asleep ...
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