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Booking photo provided by the Ventura County Sheriff's Office shows actress Heather Locklear. Locklear was arrested for investigation of domestic violence and fighting with sheriff's deputies at her California home, authorities said Monday, Feb. 26, 2018. (Ventura County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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In this June 14, 2017 photo released by the Ventura County Sheriff's Office shows suspect Rahim Leblanc, 30, of Oxnard, Calif. The Ventura County Sheriff's Department says three workers at a Southern California produce company were arrested Wednesday in the theft of up to $300,000 worth of avocados. Leblanc, Joseph Valenzuela, and Carlos Chavez are each charged with grand theft of fruit and are being held on bails of $250,000. (Ventura County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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In this June 14, 2017 photo released by the Ventura County Sheriff's Office shows suspect Carlos Chavez, 28, of Oxnard, Calif. The Ventura County Sheriff's Department says three workers at a Southern California produce company were arrested Wednesday in the theft of up to $300,000 worth of avocados. Chavez, Joseph Valenzuela and Rahim Leblanc are each charged with grand theft of fruit and are being held on bails of $250,000. (Ventura County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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In this June 14, 2017 photo released by the Ventura County Sheriff's Office shows suspect Joseph Valenzuela, 38, of Santa Paula, Calif. The Ventura County Sheriff's Department says three workers at a Southern California produce company were arrested Wednesday in the theft of up to $300,000 worth of avocados. Valenzuela, Carlos Chavez and Rahim Leblanc are each charged with grand theft of fruit and are being held on bails of $250,000. (Ventura County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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CORRECTS TO CLARIFY THAT MATTESON WAS INVOLVED IN THE CRIME BUT DID NOT COMMIT IT ACCORDING TO THE POLICE - This Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016, photo released by the Ventura County Sheriff's Office shows John Matteson. Police in a Southern California suburb are still seeking a man suspected of a hate crime for stabbing a worshipper near a mosque, authorities said. Matteson was involved in the crime, but he was not the one who wielded the knife and stabbed a worshipper from the Islamic Center of Simi Valley, police said Monday, Dec. 12. He was booked on suspicion of making criminal threats, violating civil rights and disturbing the peace by fighting, Ventura County jail records show. (Ventura County Sheriff's Office via AP )
