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Police Department in Ventura County Helps Vandalism Victims

(Simi Valley Police Department photo)
Simi Valley Police deliver toys to family victimized by vandals during the holidays

Some members of a police department in Ventura County went way beyond the call of duty this holiday season to help a family whose Christmas decorations were vandalized.

Simi Valley Police were called to a home after someone spray-painted, and destroyed their inflatable yard decorations. After hearing about what happened, and how it upset a two year old girl in the family, Simi Valley Police Property Officer Kristen Mesa started a fundraising campaign to help.

The police then delivered some toys, and because the little girl likes the cartoon series “Paw Patrol,” which features dogs, a police K-9 came along to surprise her.

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. 
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