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  • Southern California sailor sold military secrets to China, DOJ says

    08/03/2023 11:56:03 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 14 replies
    ktla ^ | 08/03/2023 | Cameron Kiszla
    Zhao captured the information in surreptitious recordings and photographs, including “operational plans for a large-scale U.S. military exercise in the Indo-Pacific Region, which detailed the specific location and timing of Naval force movements, amphibious landings, maritime operations and logistics support,” prosecutors said. “The indictment further alleges that Zhao photographed electrical diagrams and blueprints for a radar system stationed on a U.S. military base in Okinawa, Japan,” the release explained. In exchange for that information and details about Naval Base Ventura County and a base on San Clemente Island, Zhao allegedly received $14,866.
  • Pro-Hamas Protester Loay Abdelfattah Alnaji Arrested in Death of Jewish Man Paul Kessler – Charged with Involuntary Manslaughter

    11/16/2023 9:52:36 AM PST · by Red Badger · 9 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | Nov. 16, 2023 11:11 am | By Cullen Linebarger
    California police have made an arrest in the death of Jewish man Paul Kessler, who was killed during a protest last Sunday in California. Fox News reported Thursday that 50-year-old Ventura County Community College professor Loay Abdelfattah Alnaji was arrested. He has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and his bail has been set at $1,000,000. Sgt. Robin Yoos told Fox News that that there will be additional information released later today. We’re not providing any additional information at this moment in time, however there will be additional information released later today. Jim Hoft previously reported that Kessler was involved in...
  • Ninth Circuit Trump Appointed Judge Lampoons His Entire Circuit Over Its Treatment of the Second Amendment

    01/25/2022 6:32:55 AM PST · by rktman · 13 replies
    redstate.com ^ | 1/24/2022 | streiff
    As a rule, few things are less likely to be the source of humor than court decisions. Sometimes there are excellent puns or low-key snark, but you don’t find belly-laugh material. Usually. Last Friday, a panel of the Ninth Circuit published a decision on a complaint arising from Ventura, California, that covered both the COVID panic and the Second Amendment. During the height of the COVID panic, that county ordered firing ranges, and gun shops closed. Presumably, this is because the Wuhan virus has a particular affinity for recreational venues. Several groups and individuals sued to overturn the order as...
  • A Federal Judge's Satirical Opinion Highlights Disrespect for the Second Amendment

    01/26/2022 5:46:04 AM PST · by Kaslin · 2 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | January 26, 2022 | Jacob Sullum
    In one opinion published last week, 9th Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke said Ventura County, California, violated the Second Amendment when it shut down gun stores early in the COVID-19 pandemic. In another opinion the same day, VanDyke said the county's policy was perfectly consistent with the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. That second, tongue-in-cheek opinion was meant to illustrate the disrespect that the 9th Circuit and other federal appeals courts have shown for the Second Amendment since 2008, when the Supreme Court explicitly recognized that the provision guarantees an individual right to armed self-defense. The Court may finally...
  • Ventura County Nurses Blow the Whistle on Crisis in Local Health Care [Doctors not reporting Vaccine Injuries and Deaths]

    10/24/2021 4:16:22 PM PDT · by SoConPubbie · 33 replies
    The Conejo Guardian ^ | October 21, 2021 | Joel Kilpatrick
    Ventura County nurses from differ­ent sectors and specialties are coming forward to blow the whistle on what they deem serious lapses in local health care practices, mostly related to COVID-re­lated protocols, “vaccine” mandates and politically and financially motivated bul­lying of medical staff, which these health care workers say is seriously compromis­ing the general quality of local care.The Guardian spoke with multiple nurses of various ages and at different stages in their careers, all of whom work in medical care settings or hospitals in Ven­tura County. Each preferred to speak un­der a pseudonym for now. Each described seriously declining standards of...
  • Gray Wolf Last Tracked on Central Coast Now Spotted in Ventura County

    10/03/2021 11:46:57 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 9 replies
    KSBW ^ | Oct 3, 2021 | Cristal Hamer
    An endangered gray wolf that traveled at least 1,000 miles from Oregon to California's Central Coast before his tracking collar stopped giving signals in the Spring, may still be alive and roaming in Ventura County. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife said Friday that it received three reports last month of a wolf with a purple collar in the northern part of the county, and officials were able to confirm wolf tracks in the vicinity. The reports match the description of OR-93, the young male who was fitted with a purple tracking collar by federal wildlife officials in Oregon...
  • California theater renovations uncover wallet lost 46 years ago

    06/05/2021 6:07:04 AM PDT · by MAGA2017 · 32 replies
    AP ^ | 6./4/21 | AP
    VENTURA, Calif. — A woman from Ventura was reunited with a wallet she lost 46 years ago after an employee working on remodeling Southern California's historic Majestic Ventura Theater discovered it inside a crawl space. “I would have never imagined,” said Tom Stevens after locating the wallet among old candy bar wrappers, ticket stubs and soda cans. Stevens told the Ventura County Star he then went on social media to try to locate the owner based on clues in the wallet, including old photos, a 1973 Grateful Dead concert ticket and a California driver’s license for Colleen Distin that expired...
  • EXCLUSIVE: 'Defund the police' activist Alyssa Milano calls 911 sparking massive police presence in her quiet California neighborhood claiming an armed an gunman was on her property - but it was really a teen shooting at squirrels with an air gun

    09/22/2020 11:15:44 AM PDT · by knighthawk · 51 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | September 22 2020 | JILL ISHKANIAN
    Actress and 'Defund the police' activist Alyssa Milano was quick to call cops when she believed an armed gunman was on her Bell Canyon property on Sunday morning. The call ignited a response that included seven Ventura County Sheriffs' vehicles, one K-9 unit, a police helicopter and one Los Angeles Fire Department team that sat down the street on standby. DailyMail.com has obtained exclusive photos showing the first responders coming to the aid of the 47-year-old at her five bed, six bath, 8,000 square foot, $2.5 million home in the upscale gated community that sits just 20 minutes north of...
  • 2 men used stolen identities to get CA unemployment benefit cards, withdrew over $164K: Thousand Oaks police

    08/18/2020 1:59:13 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 28 replies
    ktla ^ | 08/17/2020 | Nouran Salahieh
    Two men suspected of withdrawing over $164,000 with fraudulently-obtained unemployment benefit debit cards were arrested this month in Thousand Oaks, officials said Monday. A resident called 911 on the afternoon of Aug. 6 when she saw two people “acting suspiciously” at a Bank of America ATM on 1440 N. Moorpark Rd., the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. Deputies responded and stopped a car just as it was leaving the area, finding two grocery bags full of cash and a large amount of Visa debit cards in different people’s names, according to the Sheriff’s Office. Investigators found...
  • CA Senator to Unemployed Freelancers Begging to Work: You’re Upset Because We Took Away Your “Lollipops”

    05/15/2020 2:47:13 PM PDT · by DFG · 21 replies
    Redstate ^ | 05/15/2020 | Kira Davis
    Californian independent contractors and freelancers got quite a shock Thursday evening when a state senator compared lost jobs to “lollipops.” Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson represents the 19th District in western Ventura County and Santa Barbara County. In a Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement meeting officials heard arguments for and against pushing forward SB 806 and SB990. The bills — put forth by Republican senators John Moorlach (R-Costa Mesa) and Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) — aimed to immediately suspend and amend the disastrous AB5 legislation that killed independent contracting/freelance jobs across the state. Moorlach and Grove have been two politicians at the...
  • 'Every One of Them': California Begins Forcibly Quarantining People – Separating Families – Over COVID-19

    05/07/2020 9:00:42 AM PDT · by Hojczyk · 99 replies
    PJ Media ^ | MAY 06, 2020 10:53 PM EST | VICTORIA TAFT
    On Wednesday, the soft voice of Ventura County Health Director Robert Levin confirmed that the forcible quarantines are underway. He announced a “pilot program that will grow into a larger program” and “we will find everyone with COVID-19 and we will isolate every one of them and we will make sure that they stay quarantined and we will check in with them every day. In other words, what this program means is we’re going to do a more complete job, we’re going to do a more meticulous job of making it less and less possible for others in the county...
  • 150 cars show up to Freedom Drive at Ventura County Government Center to Protest Lockdown Measures

    04/26/2020 4:17:10 PM PDT · by KittyKares · 30 replies
    Citizens Journal ^ | April 25, 2020 | Michael Hernandez
    More than 300 individuals showed up in about 150 cars to Friday’s noon “Freedom Drive” at the Ventura County Government Center asking, pleading and even demanding that Ventura County Re-Open for business, social, education and religious life.
  • California Fires Live Updates: New Blaze Threatens Reagan Library

    10/30/2019 10:37:16 AM PDT · by NRx · 31 replies
    NY Times ^ | 10-30-2019 | Tim Arango & etc.
    A fast-moving brush fire that was touched off early Wednesday burned its way to about a hundred yards from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, forcing evacuations in the area. Police and fire vehicles could be seen surrounding the library compound in the morning, and helicopters flew low overhead, dropping water and fire retardant on the flames. Heavy winds gusting to more than 60 miles an hour made it difficult to walk at times, and tumbled over museum signs that had been weighted with sandbags. The blaze, named the Easy fire, grew quickly to cover 972 acres — doubling...
  • Santa Paula man pleads guilty to murdering pregnant woman

    10/16/2019 9:43:37 PM PDT · by Morgana · 3 replies
    KEYT.COM ^ | October 10, 2019 | Bryce Hanamato
    SANTA PAULA, Calif. - A Santa Paula man has pled guilty to first-degree murder for the 2014 killing of his pregnant girlfriend. Antonio Magana is accused of stabbing his then girlfriend Ashley Morgan in Obregon Park, according to the Ventura County District Attorney's Office. Magana admitted to using a knife and a baseball bat during the attack. The District Attorney's Office said Magana wanted Moran to end her pregancy, but she refuced. On March 14, 2014, Magana struck Moran in the park and stabbed her in the neck. Her body was found the next morning, the District Attorney's Office said.
  • Police charity event on hold after chief withdraws because Republicans were invited: report

    10/02/2019 6:14:46 AM PDT · by knighthawk · 60 replies
    Fox News ^ | October 02 2019 | Brie Stimson
    A charity event planned in honor of an officer killed in a 2018 mass shooting at a country music bar in in Southern California has been postponed indefinitely -- reportedly because a police chief didn't want Republicans invited. The Blue Bowl, a charity flag football game, was intended to raise money for the family of fallen Ventura County Sgt. Ron Helus as well as other officers killed in the line of duty, FOX 11 of Los Angeles reported. Helus died last Nov. 7, when a 28-year-old suspect allegedly attacked the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, killing a total...
  • 34 people feared dead after boat catches fire off California's Santa Cruz Island: officials

    09/02/2019 8:51:41 AM PDT · by Zhang Fei · 111 replies
    Fox News ^ | September 2, 2019 | Robert Gearty
    At least 34 people were feared dead after a boat caught fire off Santa Cruz Island, California, early Monday morning, officials have confirmed. Fox affiliate KTTV earlier confirmed there were nearly three dozen fatalities, but Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr Matthew Kroll told Fox News the 34 people were unaccounted for from a commercial diving ship. The captain of the boat was helping with the rescue. Four other people were rescued. Lt. Cmdr Kroll later confirmed the ship sunk near the north shore of Santa Cruz Island after taking on water. At least 34 people were feared dead after a boat...
  • Officials: Some deaths, 34 missing in California boat fire

    09/02/2019 6:09:49 AM PDT · by vespa300 · 172 replies
    Fox 8 Cleveland ^ | 9/2/2019 | Talia Naquin
    VENTURA COUNTY, California – The Ventura County Fire Department has confirmed 34 people have been killed in a boat incident off the Ventura County coast.
  • Form-based Codes: Replacing the everyday American City with the ‘Ideal Communist City’

    04/03/2019 5:18:16 PM PDT · by Twotone · 30 replies
    American Policy Center ^ | April 2, 2019 | Kathleen Marquardt
    A form-based code is a land development regulation that fosters predictable built results and a high-quality public realm by using physical form (rather than separation of uses) as the organizing principle for the code. A form-based code is a regulation, not a mere guideline, adopted into city, town, or county law. A form-based code offers a powerful alternative to conventional zoning regulation. Several years ago, I wrote a series of articles for News with Views, explaining Sustainable Development. Today two of them are popping up regularly in the media. Back when I wrote these two articles, people would not believe...
  • The Human Scanner: Twitter User Warned Others About Borderline Bar Shooting, California Wildfires

    11/25/2018 12:56:59 PM PST · by Kaslin · 8 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | November 25, 2018 | Beth Bauman
    One Simi Valley, California man is being credited with providing thousands of people in Southern California with information relating to the Borderline Bar and Grill shooting and the Woosley Fire. For the last 10 years Thomas Gorden, 22, has listened to police scanners and tweeted pertinent information on his Twitter account. But things were different this time.On November 7th, when the shooting in Thousand Oaks took place, Gorden knew the situation was different. "When (officers) went inside and said they're going to need a lot of ambulances, that's when I realized this was a mass shooting," Gorden told The Los Angeles Times. From...
  • Many dead as trenchcoat-wearing gunman storms 'student night' at country bar and shoots at least 11

    11/08/2018 3:02:08 AM PST · by Enterprise · 110 replies
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | 8 November 2018 | Connor Boyd
    A gunman has opened fire at a country music bar during a student night in the city of Thousand Oaks, California, injuring at least 11 people and killing several. The shooter stormed the Borderline Bar and Grill wearing a black trenchcoat armed with a pistol equipped with an extended magazine and smoke grenades and began targeting people as young as 18. Among the victims was a Ventura County deputy sheriff and a doorman - as well as a cashier and college students. The lifeless body of a suspected male victim was seen outside of the venue.