Search Warrant Yields Machine Gun, Drugs
SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT
press release
Location:
900 Block of E. Ojai Ave, Ojai, Ca
Date & Time:
August 1, 2011, 1:30 P.M.
Unit Responsible:
Ojai Detectives and Patrol Units
Arrestee City of Residence Age
Frowein, Ronald Ojai 47
Narrative:
On August 1, at approximately 1:30 pm, personnel from the Ojai Police Department executed a search warrant based on information obtained about a convicted felon (Ronald Frowein) possibly in possession of a machine gun. Ojai Police organized a search warrant team utilizing resources from patrol as well as detectives to serve the warrant. The search warrant was then served at the location and deputies seized a machine gun as well as drugs, drug paraphernalia, and other contraband from the location. Mr. Frowien was arrested without incident.
Frowein was booked at the Ventura County Pre-Trial Detention Facility for possession of a firearm by a narcotic addict, possession of a machine gun, possession of ammunition, possession for sale of a controlled substance and being under the influence of a controlled substance, all felony charges.
Officer Preparing Release: Sgt. Mark Franke
I too question all the issues at Whispering Oaks. My mother was living there but I moved her out! It is NOT a seniors only facility as it is labeled. There are many people there under senior age, many with escalated emotional and or mental issues who are placed at Whispering Oaks for some odd reason. This really cuts into the availability of senior housing and also does not make this a very desirable place for a single senior person. I do think it should be investigated and cleaned up. Knowing first hand of who lives there….
The AHA page at the above link calls Whispering Oaks “Whispering Oaks Senior Villas” and states that it is
“Senior Low-Rent Public Housing”. At the very least, they either need to change the information on their web page or change the way they’re currently doing business.
Right now, this all sounds like a class-action lawsuit waiting to happen, and if the seniors at Whispering Oaks have adult children who care at all, then those are the people who need to start talking to lawyers, assuming that they can’t get results any other way. If the County has money to fight this kind of lawsuit, then they also have the money to house the misfits at another more appropriate location. If Whispering Oaks is being run for the County by a contractor and the County is blameless (if clueless), then the contractor needs to be sent on down the road, or maybe to jail, and the County needs to start exercising better oversight.
Whispering Oaks WAS, at one point, senior low-income housing. It is apparent that this is no longer the case, nor has been for quite some time.
http://www.ahacv.org/property_whispering_oaks.shtml
He was bailed the next day, he has been kicked out of the complex. Now the have about another 4-6 that need to go.
Maybe the police can issue to the chicken farmers of Ojai the weapons to discourage bears……
To the Ojai Valley News – thank you for the story and the information, and the blog. I’d love to read a follow-up story to see if anything is actually being done about this situation, maybe an interview with someone in charge at Whispering Oaks? I am really shocked and not in a good way that this kind of activity is going on there. I was also under the impression that this complex was for seniors. I will certainly take the advice (above) and write an email to both Bennett and Gallegly. I’d say somethings just not right here in paradise!
I’m glad that this has come to light. I wonder if people are aware who need to place an aging relative that needs special care, that the place they chose might harbor drug addicts and criminals? Something to think about.
Your all correct its so sad what has happend to Whispering Oaks. My VERY elderly grandma is harrased by these looser. Our entire family has complained to all of thee above and no one has done anything! I’m kind of glad this happendend, hopefully it will bring some light to what is going on in there.
Letters and emails to Steve Bennett and Elton Gallegly would seem to be in order as well. HUD is Federal, and that’s Gallegly’s turf. AHA is a County organization, and in the Ojai Valley that would be Bennett’s responsibility.
I’m going to bet that if either Bennett’s or Gallegly’s parents lived at Whispering Oaks, it would be housing for relatively placid and law-abiding seniors only, and not a dropping-off place for criminals and other hard-to-place residents.
Somebody is sopping up tax dollars to house parolees, drug dealers and drug-makers at this location, and perhaps the whole issue also needs to be investigated by the Grand Jury. (And maybe by a good reporter, too.)
Contact the appropriate person @ the HUD office and file complaints. If that does’nt work, perhaps some calls to the District Attorney might light a fire…maybe.
Maybe an investigation is in order of just who lives there.
I was wondering the same thing.
Why does HUD and/or AHA allow people like this to live at Whispering Oaks? This complex was supposed to have been housing for seniors. Why are meth-cookers, parolees, drug dealers and other felons, and the seriously mentally ill being warehoused at this location? Why are they being allowed to terrorize the older people who live there and destroy the remaining years of these law-abiding residents lives?