Port Hueneme Man Arrested After Chase
- Share via
A Port Hueneme man who allegedly slashed his ex-girlfriend with a knife and then took her car was apprehended by Los Angeles police Saturday afternoon after a chase that began in Oxnard and ended in Encino.
Celso Ullegue Anciento, 42, was arrested after he crashed the car into a light pole, Oxnard Police Cmdr. Tom Chronister said. Anciento, who was taken to Ventura County Medical Center, sustained minor injuries, police said.
Anciento was booked on suspicion of felony domestic violence battery, assault with a deadly weapon, robbery, vehicle theft, attempted kidnapping and felony evading, Chronister said.
He was being held at Ventura County Jail Saturday night on $300,000 bail, authorities said.
Sign up for Essential California
The most important California stories and recommendations in your inbox every morning.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
In this episode, we discuss the history here, what lessons were learned — and not — and how that can inform what we we do this time around as we attempt to rebuild Altadena and the Pacific Palisades.
In 2016, Sherri Papini from Redding faked her kidnapping, a hoax uncovered three weeks later. This week’s podcast revisits why the “happy housewife” plotted it and why the decade-old story is back.
This week, “A Matter of Degrees,” hosted by Dr. Leah Stokes & Dr. Katharine Wilkinson, discuss how insurance companies are failing to accommodate for the impacts of climate change.
