{"id":695530,"date":"2010-03-18T22:35:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T02:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310fb95409970c"},"modified":"2010-03-18T22:34:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T02:34:44","slug":"men-charged-with-stealing-artifacts-from-native-american-burial-site-in-ventura-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/695530","title":{"rendered":"Men charged with stealing artifacts from Native American burial site in Ventura County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three men have been booked on suspicion of stealing artifacts from a Native American burial ground in the Santa Monica Mountains in Ventura County, authorities said Thursday.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The case began March 1 about 9:45 p.m. when the Ventura County Sheriff&#8217;s Department received a call about lights flashing from the burial site. Deputies found three men with flashlights who were excavating artifacts, authorities said.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Additional artifacts were allegedly found when investigators searched the homes of the three men, according to the department.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The department said the case was turned over to prosecutors Thursday and identified the three men as Noah Erickson, 22, John Watson, 37, and Frederick Villela, 40. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The three face misdemeanor and felony charges for allegedly conducting excavations on Indian burial sites, the department said.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>&#8212; Robert J. Lopez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three men have been booked on suspicion of stealing artifacts from a Native American burial ground in the Santa Monica Mountains in Ventura County, authorities said Thursday.The case began March 1 about 9:45 p.m. when the Ventura County Sheriff&#8217;s Department received a call about lights flashing from the burial site. Deputies found three men with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2UWe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}