By F. Scott Faulkner
Ventura County, CA — Residential burglary alarm activation leads to the arrest of a 48-year-old Los Angeles man.
Officials from the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department received a report of the alarm activation in an East County neighborhood.
Detectives from the East County Investigations Bureau determined the suspect, Carlos Ernesto Aranguren Jimenez, was in possession of fictitious
government documents and had a counterfeit license plate attached to his vehicle. Investigators
linked him to “a transnational organized crime burglary crew.”
Witnesses provided a description of the suspect’s vehicle, which was broadcast to surrounding
law enforcement agencies, including the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Lost Hills
Station, just over the Ventura-Los Angeles county line. Shortly thereafter, deputies from the Lost Hills Station spotted the suspect vehicle traveling
southbound on U.S. 101 and conducted “an enforcement stop.”
Moments later, VCSD East County Patrol Services deputies responded to the location and took the driver into custody after
confirming his involvement in the burglary.
Jimenez was booked into the Ventura County Jail on burglary, conspiracy, possession of
counterfeit government documents, and destruction of evidence charges, with his bail set at
$250,000.
