Ventura Police investigating Monday morning robbery near Montalvo Square Shopping Center

VENTURA, Calif. – A 58-year-old man was hit in the arm with a crowbar and robbed of money and a pack of cigarettes Monday morning near the Montalvo Square Shopping Center on Victoria Avenue.

On July 21, around 7:21 a.m., dispatchers received a 9-1-1 call from a witness who reported they saw a man who appeared to be unhoused chasing two people on the walking path north of Montalvo Square Shopping Center with a knife stated a press release from the Ventura Police Department.

Officers located the unhoused man who shared that he had stopped two people, an 18- to 20-year-old man and a 15- to 18-year-old female, who were trying to steal his bicycle from his camp near El Pollo Loco detailed the Ventura Police Department…

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