Bizarre standoff ends with rescue, arrest




Tobo

Tobo

Camarillo police took part in a lengthy standoff April 18 with a woman who they believed had stolen a car from a cemetery and was hiding inside a travel trailer. Ventura County sheriff’s deputies learned the woman was not hiding but had overdosed on drugs.

She was revived, taken to the hospital and has since been arrested.

The incident began shortly after 3 p.m. April 18 when a family was gathered at Conejo Mountain Funeral Home, Memorial Park and Crematory on Howard Road to visit a gravesite, according to authorities.

That’s when a woman stole a vehicle belonging to one of the family members who had left the keys inside the car.

The family followed the stolen car in another vehicle and alerted the police that the car had been stolen.

Authorities say the driver, who they identified as Ileana Tobo, 27, of Oxnard, drove to a travel trailer attached to a pickup truck that was parked on the shoulder of the road in the 1900 block of Lewis Road.

Police said that as they arrived Tobo got out of the stolen car and went inside the trailer. They ordered her to come out but she didn’t. Her boyfriend, who was inside the trailer, came out and confirmed that she was still inside.

Continued efforts to convince Tobo to leave the vehicle were unsuccessful.

More deputies were called, including a sheriff’s helicopter and a K-9 unit.

Tobo did not communicate with deputies during the standoff, police said.

When more than an hour of negotiations proved fruitless, the police officers forced their way into the trailer and found Tobo under a blanket on a bed, according to the sheriff’s office.

Police initially thought she was hiding, but investigators said she had overdosed on drugs.

A deputy administered naloxone, a medication used to keep people from dying from an overdose, and she was taken to a hospital for treatment.

Tobo was later arrested and charged with car theft and resisting arrest. She pleaded not guilty to those charges and has been released. She was due back in court April 29.