Category Archives: News Releases

VENTURA, California – District Attorney Erik Nasarenko announced today that Gabriel Rosas (DOB 08/06/85), of San Luis Obispo, was found guilty of a misdemeanor for his use of pepper spray.

VENTURA, California – District Attorney Erik Nasarenko announced today that Worthey Tobe Smith (DOB 10/26/37), of San Diego, was sentenced to six years felony jail and ordered to pay restitution for his role as a “money mule” in a scam resulting in the theft of more than $1 million from an elderly Ventura widow.

VENTURA, California – District Attorney Erik Nasarenko announced that Ashley Lyons (DOB 05/08/86), of Ventura, pled guilty to felony automobile insurance fraud.

VENTURA, California – District Attorney Erik Nasarenko announced today that Jesus Manuel Calles (DOB 06/27/92), of Santa Barbara, pled guilty to felony gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, felony driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury, and misdemeanor driving without a valid driver’s license in a head-on collision that killed one driver and injured two others in December 2021.

VENTURA, California – District Attorney Erik Nasarenko announced today that Bill Lee Jones (DOB 10/04/58), formerly of Simi Valley, was sentenced to 12 years prison.

VENTURA, California – District Attorney Erik Nasarenko announced today that on August 10, 2022, Lisa Cohen (DOB 12/23/66), of Oak Park, pled guilty to the crime of being mandated to report elder abuse and failing to do so. Following her guilty plea, Judge Gilbert Romero sentenced Cohen to 120 days in the Ventura County Jail and 12 months probation.

VENTURA, California – District Attorney Erik Nasarenko announced today that Jason Alexander (DOB 10/16/81), of Kentwood, Louisiana, was found guilty of aggravated trespass and battery after entering pleas of no contest to these misdemeanor offenses.

VENTURA, California – District Attorney Erik Nasarenko announced today that Arnulfo Rodriguez, Jr. (DOB 10/20/95), of Moorpark, has been sentenced to four years prison for the death of Andrew Mejia.

VENTURA, California – District Attorney Erik Nasarenko announced today that Dana Hiscock Vines (DOB 11/16/61), of Thousand Oaks, was recently arrested and charged with 18 counts of grand theft and a special allegation that the total theft exceeded $500,000.

VENTURA, California – District Attorney Erik Nasarenko announced today that Nelson Manuel Rivas (DOB 10/21/98), of Oxnard, has been sentenced to 5 years 8 months in prison for felony gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and driving under the influence of alcohol causing great bodily injury, for killing one juvenile female and causing severe injury to another.