Woman from Newbury Park surrenders to D.A.

The Ventura County District Attorney's office announced last week that Cherie Lou Duval, 40, of Newbury Park was arrested on felony charges of embezzlement, grand theft auto and false impersonation of another.

Duval, while working as the president of the Coalition to End Family Violence, allegedly embezzled funds and a vehicle between July 2003 and February 2008.

Duval turned herself in to investigators on July 22 at the D.A.'s economic fraud unit in Ventura. She was booked in the Ventura County Jail, and bail was set at $50,000.