By F. Scott Faulkner
Ventura County, CA
After school hours, at 3:11 p.m. on January 13, law enforcement received a report of an “incident” involving a young, female student and an adult male.
According to Ventura County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Sgt. Ray Dominguez, when patrol deputies responded to
Newbury Park High School the student alleged that an adult male, later identified as 55-year-old Newbury Park resident James Arthur Silver, entered the girl’s locker room and committed “a
lewd act” in her presence.
The incident brought detectives from the East County Sexual Assault Unit, along with Thousand Oaks
Patrol Services, School Resource Officers, and the Special Enforcement Unit to the campus as an
investigation was initiated which quickly led to the identification of Silver as the dude who did
the deed.
Deputies soon located Silver and slapped the cuffs on him and transported him to Ventura County Jail where he was booked on charges of the
aforementioned “lewd conduct.”
In the State of California, a lewd act, for the uninitiated, involves any deliberate action aimed at
stoking one’s own or another’s less-than-pure intentions, often through inappropriate exposure or
behavior in front of an audience. It becomes especially heinous when
a 15-year-old girl is the victim of the conduct in a high school girl’s locker room.
Within hours, Silver was released from custody and currently awaits arraignment scheduled for
March 14, in Ventura Superior Court where deputies.