2 Men, Teenage Girl Arrested in Raid
Two men and a 17-year-old girl were arrested Thursday morning on suspicion of drug, weapons and child-endangerment violations.
Police raided an apartment on the 500 block of West Channel Islands Boulevard about 8 a.m. Thursday after a three-week investigation headed by Det. Bill Crisostomo, said Sgt. Tim Combs, who heads up the vice and narcotics unit for the Oxnard Police Department.
Officers arrested Raymond Thomas, 21, his 17-year-old girlfriend, and Anthony Dawson, 27, at the residence.
Thomas and his girlfriend have an 8-month-old daughter who was taken by the baby’s grandmother after officers found rock cocaine and guns in the apartment, authorities said.
Officers recovered a sawed-off shotgun, a Czech-made rifle, an automatic handgun, a starter pistol, brass knuckles, cocaine, marijuana and about $1,500 in cash, police said.
Thomas is in Ventura County Jail awaiting arraignment on suspicion of possessing rock cocaine and illegal weapons, having unlawful sex with a minor, and child endangerment, Combs said.
Dawson is also in the County Jail, awaiting arraignment on drug and weapons allegations, according to authorities. And the 17-year-old is being held in the juvenile detention center awaiting arraignment on child-endangerment and drug charges.
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