VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – Two Montebello men were arrested in connection with a crime ring engaged in a months-long series of thefts from U.S. Postal Service collection boxes in Ventura and Los Angeles counties.
During the past several months, a recent increase of mail thefts in the Ojai area targeting checks were connected to an organized crime ring operating across Ventura County stated a press release from the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office.
Detectives with the Ojai Unit and the West County Special Enforcement Unit identified two men from Montebello, a 20-year-old and a 27-year-old, as organizers of the mail thefts in affluent communities in Ventura and Los Angeles counties detailed the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office…