Ventura: Foot Pursuit after shots fired — Suspect arrested

sickness arial, shop sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;”>Ventura Police Department – Incident Press Releases

order arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;”>Tuesday, September 6th at 7:10am, the Ventura Police Department Command Center received a 911 call of possible gunshots heard in the 6400 Block of Whippoorwill St. Responding officers attempted to locate a victim and parties involved.

One of the responding officers located a subject matching the description given by the reporting party. Shortly after the officer detained the subject, the subject fled on foot and discarded a handgun. The officer gave chase and suffered a minor injury in the foot pursuit.

Another officer detained the suspect who was identified as 24 year old Ventura resident, Ernesto Orozco. Orozco had an outstanding warrant for his arrest and was found in possession of ammunition linking him to the discarded firearm. Orozco was also found in possession of narcotics and paraphernalia.   

Orozco was booked into the Ventura County jail for his outstanding warrant, possession of a firearm, carrying a concealed firearm, resisting an officer causing injury, possession of narcotics, and narcotics paraphernalia.

On the same date at 1700 hours, Ventura PD detectives and Ventura PD SWAT served a search warrant in the 2500 Block of Katherine St related to this investigation. Additional evidence was located and collected during the search warrant service.

The investigation into the original 911 call is ongoing and at this time, a victim has not been located. The injured officer is expected to return to full duty shortly.  Anyone with information related to this incident is urged to call the Ventura PD Major Crimes unit at 339-4488.    

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