The Ventura County Star Newspaper reported on their website Friday night "A team of investigators with the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office converged on Oxnard’s City Hall Friday afternoon locking down the building for several hours while they served a search warrant.
"Late Friday the DA’s chief investigator, Rob Briner, came out of City Hall briefly and confirmed his office was conducting an investigation of the city of Oxnard in conjunction with the FBI. Briner offered no further information.
"Much of the city’s top management remained in the building throughout the afternoon and early evening and “temporarily closed” signs were taped to front doors while deputies in green polo shirts stood guard in the lobby.
"The warrant came after several top city officials were interviewed by investigators, city sources said.
"Among those interviewed were City Manager Ed Sotelo, Assistant City Manager Karen Burnham, the city’s finance director James Cameron, the Director of Community Development Services Curtis Canon, the Deputy Director of Public Works Mark Norris and Michael Moore, an official in the finance department.
"One city source said the investigators went floor by floor Friday, first going through the Human Resources Department, then the City Attorney’s offices and finally the City Administrator’s offices on the top floor. The investigators obtained computer pass codes from employees and then took cell phones, a source said. They also obtained travel records and information from the city’s main computer system, the source said.
"Investigators also searched the top two floors of an adjacent building that houses the Public Works Department.
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"About 7:45 p.m. a handful of DA investigators carried about 15 boxes from the public works building and placed them in a dark van. They said they still had to get several more boxes of files from the City’s Administrator’s Office," the Star story reported.
