Camarillo driver dead after car accident
A 37-year-old male driver has died Jan. 23 after a collision in Camarillo two days earlier, according to authorities.
On Jan. 21 at around 3:37 p.m., deputies responded to a vehicle crash in the area of Adolfo Road and Calleguas Creek in Camarillo, according to a Ventura County Sheriff’s Office news release.
Investigators found that a vehicle first hit a light post and then hit a tree next, the release says.
Three people from the vehicle — two 37-year-old adult males and one 15-year-old female, all Camarillo residents — were treated by paramedics and firefighters that arrived on the scene, the sheriff’s office said.
One of the males, the driver of the vehicle, and the teenager were taken to a local hospital, while the second adult male, a passenger in the vehicle, reported “minor injuries and refused medical transport,” the release said. The male driver had emergency surgery but died Jan. 23.
The cause of the crash is under investigation, Deputy Joseph Nanez said.
Authorities are asking anyone with information on the incident to contact contact Nanez at 805-368-2328 or joseph.nanez@venturacounty.gov.
Oxnard student arrested in school shooting threat
A 17-year-old male student from Oxnard was arrested and booked into a juvenile facility on Jan. 22 after allegedly making criminal threats to a school, authorities said.
On Jan. 21 around 6:14 p.m., the Oxnard Police Department received word that a male Oxnard student, 17, was “threatening to carry out a shooting at R.J. Frank Middle School” in the Oxnard School District, according to a department news release.
Investigators found that the school named was not the one the student attended, the release said.
The next morning on Jan. 22 around 8:03 a.m., the male student was arrested after allegedly making criminal threats to a school and taken to a juvenile facility, the release said. The male student remains in custody at the facility as of 2:15 p.m. on Jan. 23, Sgt. Robert Caston said.
Investigators searched the student’s home in Oxnard and “there is no indication of an ongoing or immediate threat to any school or the surrounding community,” according to the release.
T.O. bookkeeper pleads guilty to $556,000 embezzlement
A 45-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to multiple felony counts of grand theft and other offenses on Jan. 21 for an embezzlement scheme in Thousand Oaks, according to authorities.
Between 2020 and 2021, the woman was an office manager and bookkeeper for a Thousand Oaks medical practice and had access to company bank accounts and financial records, according to a Ventura County District Attorney’s Office press release.
She moved the company’s money into her own and her relatives’ bank accounts and investigators found that the woman used many aliases and “created fictitious employees to conceal the thefts,” sending payroll payments to accounts she controlled, the release said. At least $556,000 was stolen from the company, the DA’s office said.
She also committed identity theft on her former colleagues and tried to implicate a former coworker of her crimes, the release said. She quit her job when financial irregularities started to come up, the DA’s office said.
The woman had left Ventura County by the time an investigation was filed and allegedly repeated similar crimes in Orange County, resulting in a warrant being issued for her arrest, the release said. She’s also accused of financial crimes in Plano, Texas, the DA’s office said.
The 45-year-old woman was arrested on Dec. 13, according to jail records. She’s pleaded guilty to offenses including filing a false or forged document and seven felony counts of grand theft, the release says.
She is being held at a Ventura County jail with a total $625,000 in bail and scheduled for a Ventura County Superior Court hearing on Feb. 20, jail records show.
This article originally appeared on Ventura County Star: 1 nabbed on school shooting threat, 1 pleads guilty to embezzlement, more
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