By Daniel Schwartz, TME

On April 13, 2020, Ventura County Sheriff’s Deputies conducted a raid of Matthew Simmons home on Curtis Trail in Lockwood Valley…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Above: (Left) Matthew Simmons, former Director of Operations at Lockwood Animal Rescue Center (LARC), on the day he was arrested in 2020

(Right), Some of the weapons and ammunition seized by Ventura County Sheriff’s deputies from Simmons on April 13, 2020

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