Three Ventura residents arrested on narcotics charges following investigation
VENTURA, Calif. - Ventura police arrested three people on Friday for the possession and sale of narcotics within the city.
Officers with the Ventura Police Department SCU Narcotics unit and a K9 Unit served a search warrant at a residence on the 1400 block of Victoria Avenue as part of an investigation into narcotics sales.
Detectives said they were able to identify a 39-year-old woman as the primary suspect.
During the execution of the search warrant, officers recovered drugs and evidence of drug sales inside the woman s vehicle.
They then arrested her for the possession for sales of a controlled substance. Two additional men were also arrested for the possession of a controlled substance and the possession of brass knuckles.
Prosecutors file felony charge against Borderline co-owner Brian Hynes
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The Ventura County District Attorney s Office has filed a felony charge against Brian Hynes, co-owner of the former Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, in a case alleging grand theft.
On Wednesday, prosecutors filed one felony count of grand theft, Senior Deputy District Attorney Marc Leventhal told The Star.
On the same day, an arrest warrant was issued for Hynes, he said. Ventura County Superior Court Judge Michele Castillo signed off on the warrant, court records show.
Hynes was accused of misappropriating funds given to him by the Westlake Village Rotary Club for a festival, Leventhal said. The amount was alleged to be at least $50,000, he said.
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Thomas Pecel, 38, of Oxnard
OXNARD, Calif. An Oxnard man was charged with hate crime and battery charges on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, Ventura County District Attorney Erik Nasarenko announced charges against Thomas Pecel, 38, from Oxnard for battery and hate crime.
On Friday Pecel was arrested after he assaulted a 51-year-old Hispanic man and yelled racial slurs at the victim in the area of East Gonzales Road in Oxnard.
Oxnard police responded to the scene and arrested Pecel.
Pecel was released from jail.
He is scheduled to be arraigned on battery and hate crime charges on July 16, 2021, at 9 a.m. in courtroom 12 at Ventura County Superior Court.
Thousand Oaks man pleads guilty to killing his mother
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A Thousand Oaks man pleaded guilty last week to stabbing his mother to death in 2020, according to Ventura County Superior Court records.
Christopher Schneider, 32, entered the guilty plea to a voluntary manslaughter charge filed Friday by the Ventura County District Attorney s Office. Schneider had initially been charged with murder in the Feb. 4, 2020, killing of his mother, Nancy Schneider, 61, of Thousand Oaks. He had previously pleaded not guilty to the murder offense.
At a court hearing Friday, Senior Deputy District Attorney Tate McCallister filed an amended criminal complaint alleging voluntary manslaughter, not murder. McCallister told The Star Monday that additional information has come to light and the manslaughter offense more appropriately fit the circumstances of the case.
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OXNARD, Calif. - An Oxnard man who kidnapped a man and committed multiple carjackings has been sentenced to more than 17 years in state prison.
Dionicio Salinas, 29, of Oxnard was sentenced in Ventura County Superior Court on Wednesday.
On June 2, Salinas pleaded guilty to multiple violent crimes that took place between November 2017 and March 2018.
In November 2017, Salinas and an unknown co-conspirator kidnapped a man in Oxnard, robbed him of his wallet and carjacked his vehicle. He was taken into custody after a police pursuit in the city. During the pursuit, Salinas struck a vehicle that was occupied by an elderly couple, the Ventura County District Attorney s Office said.