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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...