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Ventura County Sheriff's deputy injured while trying to arrest wanted man

David von Diemar
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Deputy was dragged by man's car through gas station parking lot.

A Ventura County Sheriff’s deputy is recovering from injuries he suffered when he was dragged by the car of a wanted felon officers were trying to arrest.

It happened Tuesday night, in Ventura. Deputies spotted Bryan Torres at a Ventura gas station. He was wanted for a felony warrant. They say Torres resisted arrest, and sped out of the station. But, one of the deputies was dragged by the car thorough the gas station’s parking lot.

The officer suffered what are described as serious, but non-life-threatening injuries.

Torres was located in Oxnard on Wednesday, where he was arrested without incident. The 30-year-old Ventura man was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon and resisting arrest, as well as for his previous arrest warrant.

 

 

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.