Ventura County Sheriff's Department

Location: 13000 block of Westpoint Street, Moorpark, CA
(S)uspects, (V)ictims, (W)itnesses Address Age
(V) Female Moorpark 24
(S) Ross, John Timothy Las Vegas, Nevada 42

On July 11, 2008, at 4:54 A.M., Ventura County Sheriff’s Deputies assigned to the City of Moorpark responded to the area of Peach Hill in response to a 9-1-1 call from a female who said she was being attacked. The line was then disconnected. At about 5:08 A.M. deputies located a nude female wrapped in a window curtain on Peach Hill Road at Honeybee. The female told the deputies that she had been raped. The victim was able to direct the deputies to a house in the 13000 block of Westpoint Street, Moorpark, where she said the assault occurred.

Ventura County Sheriff’s Major Crimes detectives assigned to the East County Station responded to interview the victim while detectives assigned to the Moorpark Station responded to watch the house for the purpose of locating the suspect.

At about 10:30 A.M., patrol deputies and detectives assigned to the Moorpark Police Department contacted John Timothy Ross at the residence on Westpoint. Ross was living at the residence while remodeling it. Ross was arrested and transported to the Sheriff’s Department East County Station and interviewed by Major Crimes Detectives.

Ross was booked into the East County Jail for seven felonies related to unlawful sexual conduct. His bail is set at $250,000.00.

At about 5:30 P.M. personnel from the Sheriff’s Department served a search warrant at the house on Westpoint Street. During the search that followed detectives recovered the victim’s clothing along with numerous other pieces of evidence.