BRIEFLY; ARRAIGNMENT ON TAP IN STABBING, ROBBERY.VENTURA - Two Ojai men remained jailed Wednesday in lieu of $1 million bail each after being arrested on suspicion of stabbing and robbing an acquaintance, authorities said. Sabian Reynoso, 23, and Michael Kapp, 27, were scheduled to be arraigned today on charges of robbery and assault with a deadly weapon Assault with a Deadly Weapon is the term used to describe the act of threatening to harm one or more people by using a weapon (usually a firearm). Here, assault must be differentiated from battery as they are often confused. Assault is threatening to use force. in an attack on Will Geyer. Authorities said Geyer was wounded at 1:30 a.m. Tuesday during an altercation at his home. About $50 worth of clothing and other personal property was taken in the attack, officials said. Geyer was listed in fair condition at Ventura County Medical Center Ventura County Medical Center is a hospital in the city of Ventura, California, USA. It is a 208 bed acute care hospital. The county also operates a 49 bed campus in Santa Paula. . - Daily News SEVERAL DUI CASES MAY BE JEOPARDIZED VENTURA - Malfunctioning equipment and improper training at the Ventura County Sheriff's Department's 6-month-old breath-alcohol testing program could jeopardize some drunken-driving cases. The center of the controversy is the Intoxilyzer, a machine that measures alcohol levels from breath samples of suspected drunken drivers. The Sheriff's Crime Laboratory has installed 15 new Intoxilyzers since Oct. 19 - part of a series of changes to bolster the crime lab's blood-alcohol testing program after it was harshly criticized two years ago for mismanagement mis·man·age tr.v. mis·man·aged, mis·man·ag·ing, mis·man·ag·es To manage badly or carelessly. mis·man  age·ment n. .
In February, however, the crime lab learned that the Oxnard Police Department used an uncertified un·cer·ti·fied adj. Not officially verified, guaranteed, or registered; not certified: an uncertified teacher. Adj. 1. Intoxilyzer on 19 alleged drunken drivers between Dec. 31 and Jan. 10. And last month, the crime lab discovered that 35 California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. officers have been operating the new Intoxilyzers without proper training. The District Attorney's Office last month sent letters to defense attorneys disclosing the uncertified Intoxilyzer and naming the untrained officers. Sheriff's spokesman Eric Nishimoto said the department is satisfied with the crime lab's performance and is constantly monitoring the lab to ensure it complies with all laws. Defense attorneys disagree. At least two cases involving the uncertified Intoxilyzer are being reviewed and a group of attorneys is looking at the cases handled by the untrained CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan officers, officials say. ``An independent review of the program would be well-advised,'' said Deputy Public Defender public defender, governmental official who represents indigent persons accused of crime. U.S. Supreme Court decisions expanding the right to counsel to pretrial proceedings and holding that a person cannot be sentenced to even one day in jail unless a lawyer was Brian Vogel. - Associated Press |
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