3 Men Sought in Rape and Robbery

One day after a 39-year-old woman was raped and robbed in Oxnard, police on Wednesday were offering a reward up to $1,000 to anyone with information leading to the arrest of the suspects.

Police said the woman was returning to her car in the Sav-On Drugs parking lot at 5th Street and Ventura Road at about 6:15 p.m. Tuesday when three men forced her into her vehicle and drove south toward the beach.

The men stopped near the beach and raped the woman before taking her jewelry and an undisclosed amount of cash, police said. Police said the men then drove to a parking lot near the Casbah restaurant at 5th Street and Ventura Road and abandoned the woman in her car before fleeing at about 8 p.m.

Police described the one suspect as a muscular white man in his early 20s, who is at least 6 feet tall and weighs nearly 180 pounds. He has a shaved head and green or blue eyes, and was wearing a black Raiders beanie, a white tank top, denim overalls and tennis shoes. He also has a diamond-shaped tattoo with lettering in the center of his chest and wore a diamond earring in his right ear, according to police.

Police said another suspect is a thin, Latino man in his early 30s, who is about 5 feet, 8 inches tall and has a shaved head and mustache. The man was wearing a black and brown flannel shirt, baggy jeans, a Raiders jacket, a red bandanna and a large ring with a blue stone on his right hand, police said.

Police said the third suspect is a thin black man who is about 20 years old and 6 feet tall with short hair, who was wearing all black clothing.

Authorities are asking anyone with information on the crime to call Crime Stoppers at 385-8255 or Det. Bruce Reed at 385-7759 or Det. Bob Cox at 385-7606.