News Release
On October 13, 2022, at approximately 6:30 p.m., officers from the Oxnard Special Enforcement Unit (Gang Unit) contacted occupants in a parked vehicle. The vehicle was occupied by two female adults, and a 17-year-old juvenile. One of the adults had their infant with them.
Officers immediately recognized the 17-year-old juvenile as a documented criminal street gang member with prior convictions for robbery. During the contact with the occupants, officers noticed an open alcoholic beverage container in the vehicle. All of the occupants in the vehicle were under the legal age to possess or consume alcohol.
Officers began removing the occupants from the vehicle to retrieve the open alcoholic beverage. When officers removed the 17-year-old, the juvenile admitted to possessing a firearm in the vehicle. Officers removed the remaining occupants and recovered an unloaded 9-millimeter Glock-style Polymer 80 semi-automatic handgun.
Polymer 80 semi-automatic handguns are sold commercially as incomplete, without serial numbers, and must be further manufactured to make them into functioning firearms. Officers continued to search the vehicle and located a handgun magazine loaded with15 rounds, and 1 loose live round in the vehicle.
The 17-year-old was arrested for numerous felony firearms violations and transported to the Juvenile Justice Center. The two adult females were released at the scene. The adult female with the infant was found not to be under the influence of alcohol and was found not to have committed any child endangerment violations.
The Oxnard Police Department’s Special Enforcement Unit is committed to reducing gang crimes and gun violence in the City of Oxnard through the strict enforcement of laws specifically targeting known, active gang members residing in the city. Anyone with information regarding this case or other criminal activity is encouraged to contact the Oxnard Police Department at (805) 385-7600, or online via the Oxnard Police Department’s website: www.oxnardpd.org, and clicking on Report Suspicious Activity.  You can remain anonymous if you choose to do so. You can remain anonymous by calling the Ventura County Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-8477. You can also visit this site: www.venturacountycrimestoppers.org to submit a tip via text or email. Booking photographs for adult felony arrest available on the department website: www.oxnardpd.org under crime & safety, and booking / call logs.
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Perhaps the controllers might be able to grasp that in the age of 3D printing everyone can manufacture a firearm and they will stop trying to persecute we the people for exercising our rights? No, not likely, they love the control! So lets actually look at the ‘crimes’ here. People were consuming alcohol. Notice there was no DUI charge. The others are adults yet CA refuses to recognize adults as adults now they are criminals. The reason the juvenile ‘took the fall” was because its a walk away as he is a juvenile. Now ‘likely” they are not good citizens; OK arrest them for actually harming or stealing; not possessing what is otherwise legal for other people to do, carry a firearm and drink alcohol.