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A Salinas man was charged with murder Tuesday in connection with allegedly killing his ex-wife in an agricultural area east of Oxnard.
Josefino Cayetano Maldonado, 41, appeared in Ventura County Superior Court for an arraignment hearing in the murder case. The Ventura County Public Defender s Office was appointed to represent him. He did not enter a plea Tuesday.
Maldonado s arraignment hearing was continued to Aug. 10, court records showed. Given the seriousness of the crime and the safety of the victim s family, Judge Nancy Ayers granted the prosecution s motion to hold Maldonado in Ventura County jail pending trial.
Oxnard police had been searching for Gonzales Rojas since July 11, when her family reported her missing. Family members said she had gotten into an unknown vehicle the previous night. She never came home and didn t return phone calls, police said, prompting the report to authorities.
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The driver in a crash that killed a Ventura teen on Highway 101 in Ventura on June 20 was released from jail Friday even after prosecutors sought a bail increase during an emotional court hearing.
The driver, who has pleaded not guilty to multiple felony charges, was released primarily due to a recent state Supreme Court ruling concerning bail, courtroom proceedings indicated.
Two teenage girls in the car neither wearing a seatbelt were thrown from the Nissan as it overturned several times. One of the passengers, Ventura resident Chloe Arbuckle, 16, died at the scene. The other, a 17-year-old Oxnard resident, was taken to Ventura County Medical Center with major injuries. No update on her condition was available Friday.
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David Nathanial Michelson, 73, of Newbury Park
OXNARD, Calif. - The Ventura County Acting District Attorney Cheryl M. Temple announced Thursday that an Oxnard plastic surgeon was arraigned for 22 additional felony counts of sexual assault that were allegedly committed at his private practice.
Dr. David Michelson, 73, of Newbury Park previously faced a 15-count complaint that was filed in July 2020 and named one of his patients as a victim.
As a result of news attention generated by that complaint, the Oxnard Police Department and the District Attorney’s Bureau of Investigation received numerous calls from other women who claimed to also be victims of Michelson.