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A man prosecutors say had a homemade dagger in the Ventura County Jail, and planned to use it on a jail guard has been sentenced to seven years in state prison.
Ventura County prosecutors say James Calzada was found to have the weapon, which is commonly called a shank, on May 23rd. Because the 40 year old man had already been convicted of forcible rape, his sentence was enhanced under the three strikes law.
Simi Valley Police say they’ve found a man who disappeared Tuesday afternoon.
Police say Benjamin Morris was last seen at his Larch Street home at around 1:30 yesterday. Authorities were concerned about the man’s well being.
The 24 year old man was found around 10:30 last night, and police say he was okay.
Police responding to calls of suspicious activity in a Ventura neighborhood used a K-9 to end a standoff with a parolee.
It happened at around 1:30 yesterday, on the 7200 block of Bristol Road in Ventura. Officers responding to a call of suspicious activity saw Jeremy Seymour drop a duffle bag, run into the yard of a home, and then jump a fence. They discovered Seymour was hiding in a camper.
When the 29 year old man refused to give up, a police K-9 convicted him to surrender. Seymour was arrested for a parole violation, possession of drug paraphernalia, resisting an officer, and assaulting a police dog.
Some Santa Barbara city board members are keeping their posts, despite their handling of a decision in which some of them brought political and personal views into what were supposed to be planning decisions.
Last month, the city’s Architectural Board of Review was supposed to act on some minor landscaping changes proposed for an already approved Chick-fil-A restaurant in Santa Barbara.
But, in the wake of controversy over the restaurant President’s support for the anti same sex marriage movement, not enough board members were willing to vote on the landscaping changes for a decision to be made.
The inaction was blasted by some council members, and city officials, who say board members are only supposed to act to the merits of proposed projects, and not their personal or political views of the applicants.
Some pro same sex marriage advocated defended the action.
Tuesday night, the council narrowly decided to let the board members keep their posts, with three council members calling for thie ouster. Following a four hour hearing, the council did agree that the board members will have to undergo ethics training, and sign agreements they won’t let their perison political views influnce what are supposed to be planning related decisions.
Simi Valley Police say they’re looking for a man who disappeared Tuesday afternoon.
Police say Benjamin Morris was last seen at his Larch Street home at around 1:30 yesterday. He’s a 24 year old white male, who stands about six feet tall, has brown hair, hazel eyes, weighs 180 pounds and was wearing a brown dress suit.
Authorities are concerned about the man’s well being, and are hoping somone might remember seeing him.
There’s been yet another brushfire in a Ventura County neighborhood that’s been hit by a series of suspicious blazes this week.
The latest in the series of spot fires occurred on the 7000 block of Harmon Drive in Ventura just after 2:30 yesterday afternoon.
Ventura firefighters quickly controlled the fire before it could spread to nearby homes.
The cause of the fire is under investigation. Two other small blazes in the same area earlier this week were considered to be suspicious in nature.
