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Looting arrest made in connection with Ventura County's Mountain Fire

David von Diemar
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Unsplash

Investigators say a man stole an electric bike

A man has been arrested on a looting charge in connection with the Mountain Fire.

Investigators say a man rode his electric bike to his Highland Drive home in Camarillo Friday to check damage. While he was on another part of the property, his bike disappeared from the driveway.

He noticed a landscaping crew was next door, and confronted them. The man says a member of the crew admitted taking the bike, and pulled it out of a trailer, and returned it.

The victim mentioned it a short time later to passing Ventura County Sheriff’s deputies. They tracked down and arrested the 37-year-old Camarillo man on a looting charge.

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.