VENTURA, CA - District Attorney Gregory D. Totten announced today the filing of a criminal complaint against Thousand Oaks resident David Roger Bartels (DOB 6/14/63). The complaint charges Bartels with two felony counts of forgery. The charges are the result of an investigation conducted by the District Attorney’s Real Estate Fraud Unit.

Bartels is a licensed broker (CA DRE No. 01884368) and the owner of Help-U-Sell Conejo Valley located in Westlake Village, California. Bartels is accused of forging the signatures of two clients on an extension of a residential listing agreement.

Bartels is scheduled to appear in courtroom 12 for an early disposition conference on December 8, 2016, at 1:30 p.m.