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.

Juarez and Rodriguez were booked into the Ventura County Jail after being treated for injuries they suffered while fleeing police. They were both booked on charges of attempted murder, gang street ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dozens of search warrants were executed Thursday as part of a joint investigation into the Westside Verdugo street gang, which authorities say has an extensive criminal history in the San ...

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 ...