VENTURA : New Substation for Police Is Vandalized
Vandals took aim at Ventura’s first storefront police station early Tuesday, lobbing a rock through a window weeks before the drop-in center is scheduled to open, police said.
Sgt. Carl Handy said he believed that the window was smashed by youths living near the new substation at 6368 Bristol Road in Montalvo. No arrests have been made.
“As far as I’m concerned, it was directly pointed at us,” he said. “On the other hand, it won’t make a lick of difference, because we’re going to come in no matter what.”
Department officials said they hope to open the small storefront, squeezed between a video store and a Laundromat, by the end of the month. It will be open a few hours a day and used as a base station for two officers patrolling the Montalvo area.
The storefront is patterned on two similar substations in Oxnard, one of which was firebombed before it opened.
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