VENTURA, Calif. (KEYT) – A 23-year-old Ventura man has been arrested in connection with multiple assaults near Marina Park on Nov. 30, 2025.

On Tuesday, detectives arrested the 23-year-old Ventura man who lives near where the assaults and robbery of a 70-year-old in Marina Park happened stated the Ventura Police Department in a press release.

On the morning of Nov. 30, officers were dispatched after a 70-year-old man reported he was held at gunpoint and assaulted 15 minutes earlier during a morning walk near the beachfront.

The man shared with police that two men approached him, one pulled out what appeared to be a handgun, and they demanded money, but after he explained he didn't have any, the duo forced him to the ground and kicked him in the head multiple times detailed the Ventura Police Department.

One of the men took the victim's keys, but did not take his car and instead left in what was described in November as a light-colored sedan shared the Ventura Police Department.

Detectives learned during their investigation that another person had been assaulted in the same area around the same time and both victims provided similar descriptions of the suspects and video footage from the surrounding neighborhood showed a light-colored sedan in the area before and after both attacks noted the Ventura Police Department.

After the initial announcement of the two assaults on Nov. 30, another victim came forward and reported being shot with a BB gun added the Ventura Police Department.

According to Ventura Police, a review of video surveillance and other investigative tools resulted in the identification of both the 23-year-old arrested Tuesday and another man considered a person of interest in the investigation.

The 23-year-old was booked into the Ventura County Jail on the following charges:

• PC 211–Robbery
• PC 245(a)(4)–Assault with a Deadly Weapon
• PC 368(b)(1)–Elder Abuse
• PC 242–Battery
• PC 182(a)(1)–Conspiracy to Commit a Crime
• PC 246.3(b)–Negligent Discharge of a Firearm

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London (Reuters) — British police said on Tuesday that comedian and actor Russell Brand had been charged with a new count of rape and another of sexual assault.

The new charges – authorized by the Crown Prosecution Service – related to two women and followed five charges made in April involving four other women: two counts of rape, one of indecent assault and two of sexual assault, going back more than two decades.

Brand, 50, will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on January 20 in relation to the new charges. A trial on the earlier charges is scheduled to begin at Southwark Crown Court on June 16.

Reuters has attempted to reach Brand for comment.

Brand pleaded not guilty in May to the five original charges. Once a well-known broadcaster in Britain and a former husband of US pop singer Katy Perry, he has denied having non-consensual sex.

After the original charges were announced, he said he had been a fool and a sex addict in his younger days but “what I never was, was a rapist.”

The original investigation began in September 2023 after allegations were reported by Channel 4 TV’s “Dispatches” show and The Sunday Times newspaper.

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