Overview

• Ventura County prosecutors filed charges against five juveniles in connection with assaults at the Regal Plaza parking lot on Aug. 1–2.
• Three teens are charged with felony assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury with special hate-crime allegations.
• A fourth teen faces felony assault plus misdemeanor criminal threats and battery, while a fifth is charged with misdemeanor threats and battery.
• The alleged assaults involved three victims, and video and victim accounts describe racial slurs and injuries to 18-year-old Michael Robinson.
• Two teens are also charged over a May 30 altercation at the same location, the youths are ages 16 and 17 with names withheld, arraignments are set for Oct. 10 in Oxnard, and police say one suspect is related to an officer who is not involved in the case.