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ARRESTS START YESTERDAY ANDTODAYSheriff Bob Clark and Deputies Clean Up County of Underworld Characters.MANY JOHN DOES GIVEN.Deputv Sheriff Charles Clements and Deputies Clean Up Cityof Oxnard.Twenty-one alleqed bootleagers were arrested within the city limits of Oxnard up to noon today in a ctKin-! tv wide cleanup of liquor traffic«r$. that is expected to result in some 80 arrests throuahout the county, according to Deputy Sheriff Charles Clements, today, who had charge of • the cleanus in Oxnard.The raid was staged under the direction of Sheriff Boh ('lark, and hi* deputies are still working on a number of warrants. The roundup startedat Id o’clock yesterday morning, ron-I tinning through the night and up (through today. Deputy Sheriff Clements with three operatives has been working in this vicinity for the past six weeks securing evidence against persons dealing with the transportation, sale and possession of liquor. The raid was confined to liquor cases only, gambling and vagrancy cases being Ignored in thiscleanup.Besides cleaning up Oxnard, arrests were made in Ventura. Santa Paula, Fillmore. Ojai and in the country districts. Most of those arrested have been arraigned, and bail or tine set, or their preliminary hearing fixed. Alleged bootleggers nabbed in the cleanup of the Oxnard underworld are:B. Ilustainente, 41T* Seventh street,pleaded guilty to four charges of pos* J session., fined $350 on each charge for ja total of $1400.Mrs. l.ucy Hicks, charged withthree sales of liquor and prior conviction; hail set at $1000 each or a total of $3000; preliminary hearing set for April 27.Irene Bowen (Bustamente) pleadedguilty to one charge of sale, fined $400.Negro porter by the name of Cole. Maria Bravo, 728 B sfree.A. Ballesteros, Meta Street.Mrs R. Martinez, Seventh street. Mrs. Lucy I.eseero. (daughter of | Mrs. Martinez).Robert Stone.William King, better known as “Kansas or “Big Bill”, three countsof sale.Juan (luterrez.Pete Rivers. Oxnard boulevard. Hazel W illiams, alley between Sixth and Seventh, B ami C streets.Fight John Does.These persons are asserted to have all been operating within the incorporated city of Oxnard. At El Rio, Fred Morago and Joe Ruez were arrested on liquor charges.At Ventura the alleged bootleggers nabbed who came up in court yesterday were;Miss Vera Johnson, three counts of possession, fined $1500.Jack Cobin. possession, fined $350. Leonardo Jaurig, two counts of possession. fined $H00.The list of names is not complete, as the sheriff's otfice is still workingon the roundup Only a few of those arrested in the sheriff's raid in Oxnard some time ago have left the county.A new batch of violators has been working here, and it is this bunch that Deputy Sheriff Clements has arrested in an effort to cleanup Oxnard. The roundup here was in regard to liquor only, the many other forms of vice being left alone in this raid.
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Oxnard Daily Courier
Oxnard, California, US
Wed, Apr 25, 1928
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