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16-04-2025
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Off-duty Ventura County Sheriff's deputies arrested after fight with bar bouncer
Two Ventura County sheriff's deputies were arrested in late March after a fight at a bar in Camarillo that sent a bouncer to the hospital. The two deputies, Anthony Malagon and Dylan Davis, were at the El Rey Cantina in Old Town Camarillo a little after midnight on March 30, according to a statement released April 16 by Sheriff Jim Fryhoff. Both men were off duty. At the bar, Fryhoff's statement said, "an apparent domestic incident occurred wherein a security guard intervened." The bouncer was injured in the subsequent fight and treated at a local hospital. Davis, 33, was arrested on suspicion of multiple felony and misdemeanor offenses, including inflicting injury on a spouse; battery causing serious injury; using force likely to cause serious injury; making criminal threats; and misdemeanor battery. Malagon, 27, was arrested on suspicion of battery causing serious injury and using force likely to cause serious injury. Both men were booked into Ventura County jail and later posted bail. They have not been charged yet by the Ventura County District Attorney's Office, but both could face felony charges stemming from the incident. Attempts to reach both men were unsuccessful. In addition to the criminal investigation, the sheriff's office will also conduct an internal affairs investigation into whether Davis and Malagon violated any department policies. In the meantime, they have both been placed on administrative leave, Fryhoff said in his statement. 'I want to assure the public and our community that the Sheriff's Office takes this matter very seriously," Fryhoff said in his April 16 statement. "We hold our deputies to the highest standards of conduct; any violation of those standards will be addressed appropriately, without hesitation … as that is what both our community and our agency expect and deserve." A spokesperson with the sheriff's office did not immediately respond to questions seeking more details about the incident. Tony Biasotti is an investigative and watchdog reporter for the Ventura County Star. Reach him at tbiasotti@ This story was made possible by a grant from the Ventura County Community Foundation's Fund to Support Local Journalism. This article originally appeared on Ventura County Star: Ventura County Sheriff's deputies arrested after fight with bouncer
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03-03-2025
- Business
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January sales show Ventura County home prices continue to climb but slowly
The price of homes in Ventura County has flattened out a bit, but the median sale price in January was still higher than in any previous January. There were 207 single-family homes sold in Ventura County in January, and the median price — the point at which half sold for more and half for less — was $875,000, according to the latest data from the California Association of Realtors. That was down 2.2% from the previous month, and 0.6% from January 2024. Statewide, the median price in January for existing single-family homes was $838,850, down 2.6% from the previous month and up 6.3% from a year earlier. Ojai had the highest median sale price in the county in January at $1.38 million followed by Thousand Oaks at $1.3 million. The lowest prices were in Fillmore at $735,000 and Santa Paula at $745,000. Home prices in Ventura County, and most of California, have leveled off in the past couple of years after a period of extraordinary gains. From January 2019 to January 2022, the median price in Ventura County grew by 38%. Then in the next three years, from January 2022 to January 2025, the median price went up by just 2.9%. Still, Ventura County remains one of the least affordable places in the United States for homebuyers. The National Association of Realtors affordability index, which factors in both home prices and wages, puts Ventura County second from the bottom in affordability, ahead of only Los Angeles. Economists and other experts usually attribute Ventura County's high home prices to a shortage of housing supply. The California Lutheran University's Center for Economic Research and Forecasting released its annual report on the Ventura County economy on Feb. 20, in which it described a lack of housing as the biggest reason for the county's sluggish economic growth and shrinking labor force. Tony Biasotti is an investigative and watchdog reporter for the Ventura County Star. Reach him at tbiasotti@ This story was made possible by a grant from the Ventura County Community Foundation's Fund to Support Local Journalism. This article originally appeared on Ventura County Star: January sales show county home prices continue to climb but slowly
