1 young person arrested, fellow cyclists wanted in attacks
A 13-year-old was taken into custody Saturday evening for allegedly throwing a rock at a woman in West Ventura.
The Ventura Police Department said it received several calls Saturday around 10:30 p.m. from a group of youths causing a disturbance while riding an electric bicycle.
Witnesses told officers that the group of cyclists first attacked a 66-year-old homeless woman as she slept in a sleeping bag near Main and Beijing streets, near the Highway 33 underpass. A second woman nearby said the young people had thrown a stone and been hit. her, according to Ventura police.
Meanwhile, other callers told police that a group of youths on bicycles, believed to be the same group, had disturbed and spat at people near the Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach hotel near the Ventura Pier.
The cyclists returned to the scene of the first incident and when they saw officers, they tried to drive away. Officers arrested a bicyclist, the 13-year-old teen, and his female passenger.
The victim who was hit by the rock identified the 13-year-old as the one who threw the rock. Ventura police said the teen was arrested on suspicion of battery and later released to a parent.
The youths who attacked the sleeping homeless woman have not been identified. Anyone with information on his identity or who may have witnessed the incident is asked to call Ventura police at 805-650-8010.
6 restaurants in Moorpark, TO have been burglarized
At least six restaurants in East County were burglarized after hours Sunday evening, according to the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office.
Three Moorpark restaurants along New Los Angeles Avenue were targeted overnight, sheriff’s officials said. Another three restaurants in Thousand Oaks, one in the 100 block of North Moorpark Road and two more in the same complex in the 900 block of Westlake Boulevard, were also burglarized, the sheriff’s office said. The cities of Moorpark and Thousand Oaks contract with the sheriff’s office for police services.
Officers responded to a report of an alarm around 2:45 a.m. Monday in the 500 block of New Los Angeles Avenue and found the business had been burglarized, sheriff’s Capt. Robert Yoos said. Officers soon discovered that a nearby restaurant had also been burglarized and a third was soon found in the area. The extent of the damage and what was taken was not immediately known, Yoos said.
In Thousand Oaks, an employee of a restaurant in the 900 block of Westlake Boulevard arrived Monday morning and discovered damage. The worker soon found another affected restaurant nearby and called emergency services at 8:24 a.m., Yoos said. An undisclosed amount of cash was taken from both eateries, the sheriff’s captain said.
An employee at a third restaurant in the 100 block of North Moorpark Road in Thousand Oaks called the sheriff’s office at 9:37 a.m. after the business was broken into, he said. Cash was also taken out of the business, Yoos said.
It was not immediately clear if they were connected, Yoos said.
Residents can report suspicious people and vehicles by calling 911 or the Thousand Oaks station’s non-emergency line 805-654-9511.
Authorities identify motorcyclist in fatal accident involving TO
A 21-year-old man died in a motorcycle accident in Thousand Oaks on Friday evening.
Jose Luis Diaz Cruz, of Oxnard, was driving near the intersection of Westlake Boulevard and Hillcrest Drive around 11 p.m. when the crash between the motorcycle and another vehicle was reported, according to the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office. The agency is contracted to provide police services in Thousand Oaks.
Arriving officers found the rider unresponsive and performed CPR, Capt. Nick Odenath said at the time. The rider was taken by ambulance to Los Robles Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
The driver of the other car was also taken to hospital with minor injuries. He was later released, sheriff’s officials said.
Anyone who witnessed the collision or has additional information about the collision is encouraged to contact Senior Deputy Marcos Moreno at 805-494-8271 or marcos.moreno@ventura.org.
This article originally appeared on Ventura County Star: Homeless woman attacked in Ventura, East County eateries attacked, more
