The victim was lured from a nightclub through text messages before being driven to an alley in an industrial area where a ...

A Ventura County judge imposed the maximum sentence on the pair convicted of murdering Oxnard woman Yanelly Vargas.

A Ventura County couple has been sentenced in the murder case of Yanelly Vargas, a former girlfriend of the male suspect.

A California couple was sentenced for the 2024 murder of Yanelly Vargas, with Margarita Jimenez receiving 80 years to life, ...

The crime unfolded just before midnight on March 17, 2024, when Oxnard police responded to a call about a fight between a man ...

Prosecutors said Margarita Jimenez’s discovery of texts between her boyfriend and the victim ignited the killing ...

Margarita Jimenez and Jorge Garfias are charged with murder during the commission of a kidnapping. They are accused of killing 35-year-old Yanelly Vargas. Garfias was Vargas' ex-boyfriend and Jimenez ...

Oxnard police have arrested a man and woman on suspicion of murder in connection with the fatal shooting of a woman on March 17. The suspects, Margarita Jimenez, 33, and Jorge Garfias, 36, were taken ...

A trail of blood and broken acrylic nails helped solve a grisly Ventura County murder, authorities say — culminating Friday in the conviction of a couple for beating and murdering the man's ...

A couple has been convicted in a shooting that left a man’s ex-girlfriend dead, California officials said. In March 2024, 38-year-old Jorge Garfias lured his ex-girlfriend, Yanelly Vargas, 30, out ...

A Southern California couple was convicted of murdering a woman who was one of their former lovers. Margarita Jimenez, 34, of Oxnard, and Jorge Garfia, 38, of Ventura, were convicted by a jury of ...