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A really good action movie can be so absolutely enthralling as to make some in the audience believe that such things can actually happen out in the real world. That may be the rationale behind the activities of 25-year-old Oxnard resident Jordy Carrillo on the afternoon of March 29, 2024.
It was just after 3:00 p.m. when Carrillo was cruising down the wide boulevards of Thousand Oaks where—according to Ventura County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Sgt. Dillan Alvarez—he was observed by a patrol deputy “violating several traffic laws.” Responding dutifully, the deputy “initiated a traffic enforcement stop.”
But Carrillo—perhaps subconsciously feeling like Vin Diesel in any number of the scenes in The Fast and the Furious cinematic franchise—summarily failed to yield to the marked VCSD unit behind him and instead “accelerated to speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour.” With driving skills akin to those of his favorite action hero, Carrillo managed to elude the pursuing cops, who “terminated the pursuit for public safety reasons.”
But a mere 11 days later, during which detectives identified Carrillo as the evasive driver, members of the East County Special Enforcement Unit spotted him driving through the City of Oxnard, “occupying the same vehicle” in which he had outrun the cops. He and his car were brought to an unceremonious halt, and he was taken into custody and arrested on April 9th. He was then transported to Ventura County Jail, where he was booked on a charge of evading with willful disregard for public safety, with his bail set at $65,000.
