Prompted by rising gang crime in unincorporated areas, the Ventura County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved creation of a special sheriff’s gang patrol. The detail of two deputies ...

Authorities arrested 18 people during a months-long bust of suspected gang members across Ventura County. The suspects were identified as a group comprised of both juveniles and adults ...

Ventura County ranks as the most crime-free urban area in the West, but gang violence has spiraled so sharply upward in the last year that prosecutors want to ban the county’s largest street ...

San Bernardino County district attorney. The target of the operation was the Westside Verdugo Street Gang. Authorities arrested 86 people, and almost all of them are now facing felony charges.

Firearms, seized from a multiagency operation targeting the Westside Verdugo criminal street gang, are displayed during ... (Watchara Phomicinda/The Orange County Register via AP) Advertisement ...

On Wednesday, state and local authorities arrested members and associates of the Westside Verdugo criminal street gang. In June, the San Bernardino Police Department requested assistance from the ...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – A high-ranking member of an Oxnard-based street gang was sentenced on Thursday to 13.5 years in prison for drug trafficking offenses and extorting "taxes" on behalf of a ...

Ventura County District Attorney Erik Nasarenko announced on Friday that Richard Hernandez of Ventura was sentenced to 32 years 8 months to life for a 2016 gang shooting. Hernandez pled guilty to ...

Nearly three dozen suspected members or associates of San Bernardino’s Westside Verdugo ... The gang was the target of another operation in summer 2017 when the San Bernardino County Sheriff ...

A Ventura County gang member has pleaded guilty to the deadly shooting of a man in Oxnard. On March 13, Christopher Paul Arevalo, 33, pled guilty to the second-degree murder of Giovanni Vega ...

More than 40 people affiliated with a San Fernando Valley white supremacist gang have been arrested ... a large drug distribution operation in Ventura County, obtained pounds of methamphetamine ...

The suspects were identified by the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office as: On April 17, deputies responded to an assault inside a business in the 400 block of North Moorpark Road at 9:30 p.m. The ...