{"id":480904,"date":"2026-09-30T22:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T22:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/480904\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T22:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T22:12:08","slug":"10-arrested-in-alleged-ventura-county-catalytic-converter-theft-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/480904\/","title":{"rendered":"10 arrested in alleged Ventura County catalytic converter theft ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ventura County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said through Operation Cut and Run, 10 Los Angeles County residents have been arrested for their part in a catalytic converter theft ring.<\/p>\n<p>Over a five-month period, from April through August, Ventura County residents within several different cities experienced a rash of catalytic converter thefts from their vehicles, according to the Ventura County Sheriff&#8217;s Office. <\/p>\n<p>The joint investigation was carried out by police departments in Ventura, Oxnard, Simi Valley, Baldwin Park, and by Ventura County&#8217;s Organized Retail Theft Task Force, Auto Theft Task Force, and county DA investigators.<\/p>\n<p>Allegedly, the 10 suspects routinely traveled into Ventura County, targeting vehicles to steal catalytic converters from. <\/p>\n<p>The following suspects, all from Los Angeles, were arrested and charged with grand theft and other charges:<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Guerrero, 19Kevin Ramos, 22\u00c1ngel Espinoza, 22Nestor Barillas, 21Maynor Guillen-Cardona, 20Andrew Ramirez, 23Efran Florez, 20Yorvin Monterroso, 20Isaiah Guzman, 20\u00a0Erwin Francisco Juarez-Echeveria, 40: charged with conspiracy to commit a crime and receiving stolen property.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ventura County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said through Operation Cut and Run, 10 Los Angeles County residents have been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-480904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}