Roundup: SWAT responds to firearm incident, Christmas crash in Simi area brings prison term
Here's a roundup of recent incidents and announcements from Ventura County agencies:
An Oxnard man was booked into jail May 24 on suspicion of multiple violent crimes in connection with a domestic violence incident involving a firearm, officers said.
Oxnard police said the 26-year-old man battered and threatened to kill his 29-year-old girlfriend on the evening of May 23, forcing her to leave a residence in the 900 block of East Channel Islands Boulevard and go to a hospital for treatment.
Cmdr. Scott Aaron said hospital staff alerted police. They interviewed the woman at the hospital and gave her a ruse she used on the phone to coax him out of the house, he said. The man had the couple's 3-month-old child with him, but turned the baby over unharmed to family members, Aaron said.
Officers said the man was in possession of a firearm but the department's SWAT team took him into custody without incident.
Police said they did not know the condition of the woman as of May 24, but that she had been released from the hospital.
The suspect was booked into the Ventura County Jail on multiple charges, according to a jail inmate listing. Included were kidnapping, domestic battery causing injury, assault with a deadly weapon, making criminal threats, child endangerment and being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
The man remained in the main jail in Ventura on the night of May 24 in lieu of $1 million bail.
He is due to appear in court May 28.
A Simi Valley man was sentenced May 20 to four years in prison in connection with the death of a passenger in a crash on Christmas Day 2022, the District Attorney's Office said.
The defendant identified as 40-year-old Michael Gordon Butler pled guilty on April 24 to one felony count of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, according to a news release issued by the DA's office. He received the low prison term for the offense and his driving privileges were suspended for three years, according to the court docket.
Butler and the 23-year-old passenger had been at a family gathering before leaving in a Corvette that Butler had recently purchased, according to the DA's office. The vehicle went off Santa Susana Pass Road and landed 200 feet down an embankment, the DA's office said.
Investigators with the California Highway Patrol reportedly determined Butler had been driving at a high rate of speed while impaired, lost control of the vehicle, and struck trees and the hillside during the fatal crash.
This article originally appeared on Ventura County Star: Roundup: SWAT responds to firearm incident, Christmas crash in Simi area brings prison term
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
CBS News
21 minutes ago
- CBS News
SWAT executes search warrant in Coral Springs home, police say
The Coral Springs Police Department's SWAT team executed a residential search warrant on Thursday in connection with property crimes, the agency said. The warrant was carried out around 8 a.m. at a home in the 3400 block of Coral Springs Drive by the department's special weapons and tactics team, police said. After the occupants left the residence, detectives said they conducted a search and found items of evidentiary value. Authorities said no arrests had been made and the investigation remains active. Officials emphasized that there are no imminent dangers or risks to the public. No further information has been released.
TechCrunch
37 minutes ago
- TechCrunch
Rippling calls Deel ‘a criminal syndicate' and claims 4 other competitors were spied on, too
The fight between HR tech startups has heated up another notch this week as Rippling on Thursday filed an 84-page amended complaint in its lawsuit against Deel. The complaint accuses Deel of targeting, infiltrating, and compromising four other competitors, in addition to Rippling. The revised complaint doesn't name all of the four other alleged victims, except cryptocurrency-based tax and payroll compliance company, Toku. Toku is suing its competitor LiquiFilegal also alleging corporate espionage, and that Deel was involved. The complaint alleges that 'Victim-3 is a startup accelerator that previously partnered with Deel.' The complaint doesn't name, or even imply, who that is. (Y Combinator backed both Rippling and Deel but there's no indication this refers to the VC firm. YC has not yet responded to our request for comment.) The complaint also vaguely says that there are one or more additional victims who are 'one or more major competitors of Deel' in the employer of record market. A source familiar with the investigation believes that more witnesses will soon come forward at these other companies to offer details. (Deel did not immediately comment. We will update this story with its response once it does.) Rippling's amended suit also alleges that Deel's CEO Alex Bouaziz was the direct mastermind of it all, sharing screenshots of messages as its evidence. And, although this is a civil suit, Rippling is now implying that this could be a criminal matter. 'This case is about a criminal syndicate that operated from the shadows of a multibillion-dollar technology company – Deel,' the complaint reads. Rippling's amended lawsuit is now suing Deel under the federal RICO statute, as well as the Defend Trade Secrets Act, and California state law. The lawsuit directly names Alex Bouaziz, his father Philippe Bouaziz who is chairman and chief financial officer, and Deel's chief operating officer Daniel Westgarth. It's important to note that the lead attorney for Rippling is Alex Spiro of white-shoe law firm Quinn Emanuel. Spiro is a former prosecutor for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. (He's well known in the legal world, and has his own Wikipedia page.) Using words like 'criminal syndicate' in a civil case would be a deliberate choice. According to the source familiar with the case, federal prosecutors are now actively looking into the allegations against Deel as well. An investigation, however, is not a conviction. But should charges be filed, Rippling is doing its best to set up Bouaziz himself as one of the people responsible. The complaint even goes so far as to repeatedly use the colorful language 'the Bouaziz Racketeering Enterprise.' Other than that, much of the amended complaint reiterates what Rippling has already alleged. To recap: a Rippling employee confessed to being a paid spy for Deel in an Irish Court, in an affidavit that reads like a Hollywood movie. The employee admitted in court to taking sales leads, product roadmaps, customer accounts, names of superstar employees, and whatever other information was asked for. The employee was caught in a Rippling-set honeypot, both he and Rippling say. Rippling is suing Deel, alleging misappropriation of trade secrets, tortious interference, unfair competition, and more, largely based on the spying allegations. Deel has counter-sued in a case that is less about denying Rippling's charges and making a bunch of its own claims about Rippling. For instance, earlier this week, Deel filed an amended lawsuit that claimed that Rippling was spying on Deel by having an employee 'impersonate' a customer to obtain non-public product information. Grab some fresh popcorn. This battle between arch rivals shows no sign of slowing.
CBS News
an hour ago
- CBS News
2 adults, 1 child dead in apparent murder-suicide in Mercer County, New Jersey, prosecutor says
An investigation is underway after a man shot his girlfriend and her daughter before shooting himself in an apparent murder-suicide in Mercer County, New Jersey, the Office of the Mercer County prosecutor said. Hamilton police responded to a 911 call before 4 a.m. Thursday from a home on the 200 block of Henry Street, Mercer County Prosecutor Janetta D. Marbrey said in the release. A man, a woman and a 10-year-old girl were pronounced dead at the scene after police discovered all three with gunshot wounds. The Mercer County Homicide Task Force and the Hamilton Police Division are investigating the incident. This is a developing story. Stay with CBS Philadelphia for updates.
