Vehicle Arrest
updated: Nov 29, 2012, 12:32 PM

Source: Ventura County Fire Department

Incident: Stolen Vehicle Recovery/Arrest

Location: 8200 Block Visalia

Date/Time Occurred: 11-29-12/0514hrs

Officer(s) Involved: Patrol

Victim(s): Oxnard Resident

Suspect(s): Daniel Esquivel, 19 yrs. Oxnard Vagrant

Report #: 12-14223

Narrative: On 11-29-12 at approximately 0514 am, alert neighbors in the 8100 block of Calaveras Street, interrupted a residential burglary in progress and called the Ventura Police Department Command Center. They were able to get a description of the vehicle fleeing the scene and a responding patrol officer located a vehicle matching the description driving in the area and contacted the driver of the vehicle in the 8200 block of Visalia. The alert patrol officer detained the driver and conducted an investigation, which revealed the vehicle was a reported stolen vehicle out of Oxnard. The driver was eventually identified after initially giving a false name and arrested.

The suspect was arrested and booked at Ventura County Jail for the vehicle theft and providing false information to a police officer. The property from the residential burglary was recovered a short distance from the residence. No one was injured as a result of this incident.

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