OXNARD : Robbery Is 15th of Year in City

A branch office of the Bank of A. Levy in Oxnard was robbed Friday, authorities said.

The robber walked into the bank in the 1800 block of Victoria Avenue about 10:45 a.m. and gave a teller a demand note that said he had a gun, said Gary Auer, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Ventura County office.

No weapon was seen, Auer said.

The suspect, 25 to 27 years old, was wearing a black and gray sweater and gray slacks. He was described as being 5 feet, 9 inches tall and weighing about 160 pounds, with short black hair and a mustache.

Friday’s robbery was the 27th in the county this year, Auer said. Fifteen of them have occurred in Oxnard.

“Our experience this year has been that almost all the people arrested in those robberies were from Oxnard,” he said. “They’ve been robbing their own town; it’s not like we have some people coming up from L. A. to do this.”

On Thursday, a 29-year-old Oxnard man was arrested on suspicion of robbing a bank in Port Hueneme, police said.

Aaron Trujillo was arrested after police stopped a car in east Oxnard that matched the description of one used in the Port Hueneme holdup. Port Hueneme police believe that money recovered from the vehicle was taken from Household Bank in the 2600 block of North Ventura Road during a robbery, Sgt. Fernando Estrella said.

Witnesses provided police with a description of the suspect’s vehicle. The arrest marked the third straight day that Oxnard officers had apprehended a bank robbery suspect.