The SPPD Special Response Team was deployed to “several locations and assisted while the locations were secured” to enable the searches, noted Sgt. Juarez. Once secured, officers and investigators, including the members of the SPPD Crime Suppression Team, entered the residences and invoked the terms of the residents’ probation.“Some of the residents searched were found to be in compliance with their probation terms while others were not,” leading to citations or arrests, noted Sgt. Juarez. Arrested were Mauricio Reyes, 26 and Rene Vasquez, 39 for violation of parole; William Anthony Romero, 21 for being under the influence of a controlled substance; and Ivan Daniel Lopez, 27 for criminal threats, felony vandalism and for being in the possession of a loaded firearm. All the men arrested are residents of Santa Paula. Cited and released for violation of their juvenile probation were unidentified 16 and 17-year-old boys.“These probation/parole searches of the seventeen locations were accomplished with the combined efforts of at least 50 peace officers,” said Sgt. Juarez. “The searches are, and will be part of, an ongoing effort by cooperative law enforcement agencies to continue to reduce the ability of gang members and those associated with the sales or use of controlled substances from illegal activity within Santa Paula,” as well as neighboring communities, noted Sgt. Juarez.
SPPD probation searches: Four adults, two juveniles caught in sweep
December 10, 2004
Santa Paula Police Department
Santa Paula police and members of various other law enforcement agencies made early Wednesday morning calls on 17 residences for probation searches, an action that led to the arrest of four adults and two juveniles on various drug and weapon charges, according to a SPPD spokesman.
By Peggy KellySanta Paula TimesSanta Paula police and members of various other law enforcement agencies made early Wednesday morning calls on 17 residences for probation searches, an action that led to the arrest of four adults and two juveniles on various drug and weapon charges, according to a SPPD spokesman. Sgt. Carlos Juarez said the sweep, launched at 7 a.m., is a part of the SPPD’s ongoing effort to “reduce gang violence and drug trafficking in the city.”Santa Paula officers were assisted in the searches by agents from State Parole and Ventura County Adult and Juvenile Probation as well as from Oxnard, Port Hueneme and Santa Barbara City and County law enforcement agencies and the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department. Various departments also utilized their K-9s in the searches. In all the operation was conducted by about 50 members of the various law enforcement agencies.
