On Thursday at around 5:33 p.m., members of the Special Enforcement Unit (Gang Unit) stopped a vehicle at F St. and Fourth St. as part of a targeted operation to catch Manuel Moreno, age 50, according to a news release from the Oxnard Police Department.
The man at the heart of this operation, Manuel Moreno, found himself in the police's grips once again, as detectives served a search warrant anchored in prior investigation by the Violent Crimes Unit. Moreno was detained during a traffic stop and found with an illegal knife, prompting his arrest for that violation. A subsequent rummage through a property on North H St., under the watchful gaze of a separate search warrant, yielded a stockpile of methamphetamine and fentanyl, gun parts, ammunition, a cache of U.S. Currency, and a semi-automatic, short-barreled, rifle, an 80%, signifying its commercial sale as incomplete and unserialized.
Following the seizure, it was disclosed that Moreno was no stranger to the Special Enforcement Unit. This was his second collision with law enforcement in as many weeks for similar allegations. "Moreno had been previously arrested by Special Enforcement Unit officers for narcotics and firearms violations five days ago," stated the Oxnard PD in their news release.
