Mental Health Unit
Our Mental Health Unit is comprised of five attorneys and one paralegal handling mental health treatment courts (Mental Health Court, Mental Health Diversion, and Veteran’s Treatment Court), cases involving individuals that are incompetent to stand trial, gun forfeitures, and civil commitments. To more humanely address the too-common crossover between mental health conditions and criminal behavior, the District Attorney’s Office created a Mental Health Unit in 2021. With two mental health unit attorney positions having been approved last year by the Board of Supervisors, the unit is currently comprised of four attorneys and one paralegal, who handle Mental Health Court, Mental Health Diversion, Veteran’s Treatment Court, and civil mental health commitments. These specialty courts focus on treatment of the underlying mental illness and successful completion of an approved treatment plan that can result in dismissal of their pending charges. In addition, cases involving defendants who are severely mentally ill and dangerous,…
Family Justice Center Biennial Report 2022
Thank you to the County of Ventura Board of Supervisors and the County Executive Office for their leadership, vision, and support in helping to establish the first-ever Family Justice Center in Ventura County. Since opening in 2019, more than 5,700 victims and survivors have received services at the Ventura County Family Justice Center.
November 3, 2022
Borderline 4th Observance (002)Next week is the fourth memorial observance of the Borderline Shooting. Victim Advocates and Courthouse Facility Dogs, Star, Comet, and Trakr from the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office, Crime Victims’ Assistance Unit will join Give an Hour staff, and clinicians at the Borderline Healing Garden to remember the lives taken and support one another.
November 2, 2022
District Attorney Erik Nasarenko announced the sentencing of three defendants who embezzled from the owner of three hotel properties.
November 2, 2022
District Attorney Erik Nasarenko announced today that a nearly $2 million insurance fraud case has led to a guilty plea by defendant Steven F. Gordon (DOB 08/18/54) of Camarillo.
October 31, 2022
District Attorney Erik Nasarenko announced that a central coast man charged with making criminal threats against the Conejo Valley Unified School District was arraigned in Ventura County Superior Court today, October 31, 2022. Randall Earl Graham (DOB 03/07/78), of Goleta, entered a plea of not guilty to two counts of making criminal threats with the special allegation of threatening great bodily harm.
October 27, 2022
District Attorney Erik Nasarenko announced today that a Ventura County jury convicted defendant Tyler Clark (DOB 03/04/88), of Ventura, on several charges stemming from a hate crime stabbing.
October 24, 2022
District Attorney Erik Nasarenko has announced additional conspiracy charges have been filed against a six-person crew from Colombia accused of at least six residential burglaries in Ventura County. This South American Theft Group is the latest to be tracked down and arrested.
October 21, 2022
District Attorney Erik Nasarenko announced today that Alessandra Huber-Perez, of Ventura, was sentenced to 6 years, 4 months in state prison on Tuesday, October 18, 2022. Huber-Perez pled guilty on August 12, 2022, to human trafficking of a minor, false imprisonment, and furnishing a controlled substance to a minor.
October 20, 2022
District Attorney Erik Nasarenko announced that Dana Hiscock Vines, of Thousand Oaks, pled guilty to nine counts of grand theft and special allegations. Vines, a longtime office manager for Aviara Real Estate, embezzled $1.12 million from the company between 2007 to 2020.