Photo: Image of weapons collected during arrest | Ventura County Sheriff’s Office
With the ubiquity of illegal firearms continuing unabated throughout Ventura County communities, local jurisdictions take an aggressive, pro-active stance in investigating the possession of illegal and unregistered guns while keeping an eye on those folks suspected of trafficking them. Law enforcement apparently acts with all due alacrity when they get information about any possible firearms violations in the community of known gang members.
It was just that kind of information which flowed from the June 2023 arrest of 19-year- old Oxnard resident Kevin Ramos on charges of what Ventura County Sheriff’s Department spokesman described as “vandalism to benefit a criminal street gang.” In Ramos’s cast, he was initially arrested for spray painting graffiti in the City of Camarillo that featured known gang insignia.
It was that arrest which led to the Camarillo Special Enforcement Unit “obtaining” information relating to Ramos’s likely possession of an unregistered firearm and to the subsequent issuance of a warrant for the probable cause search of his residence.
That warrant was served early in the morning of December 13 th , leading to the discovery of the suspected firearm along with “ammunition and gun parts.” At that point, Ramos was taken into custody, along with his 24-year-old brother Juan Carlos Ramos. Both Ramos brothers were transported to Ventura County Jail where the elder was charged with being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm and the younger was charged with unlawful transfer of a firearm and participation in a criminal street gang.
Both Kevin Ramos and Juan Carolos Ramos remain in custody on a no-bail hold.
