VENTURA, California - District Attorney Gregory D. Totten announced today that a jury convicted Jose Guzman Ochoa (DOB 9/5/83), of Oxnard, of first-degree murder and found true the special circumstances that the murder was committed during the course of a burglary and attempted robbery. The jury also convicted Ochoa of two counts of forcible oral copulation, with further findings that Ochoa committed the offenses during the commission of a burglary, during the course of a kidnapping, and that he personally used a deadly or dangerous weapon. The jury convicted Ochoa of six additional felony counts, including robbery, attempted robbery, burglary, and false imprisonment by violence. As to all counts, the jury found true the special allegation that Ochoa personally used a firearm.

Sentencing for Ochoa is scheduled for December 4, 2014, at 8:30 a.m. in courtroom 44 of the Ventura Superior Court, County of Ventura. Ochoa faces a maximum sentence of life without parole with an additional sentence of 85 years to life in prison.