Oxnard Man Sentenced for Sleeping Truck Driver Assault

Jose Luis Meza Jr. was sentenced in late October 2025 to 18 years and eight months in state prison for sexually assaulting a sleeping female truck driver in an Oxnard industrial area on Sept. 14, 2020. He pleaded guilty in September 2025 to assault with intent to commit rape and forcible oral copulation and admitted special allegations, including prior convictions and that he was on parole at the time. Prosecutors say Meza entered the victim’s truck, demanded money, climbed into the sleeper berth, physically restrained and sexually assaulted her before she fought free and ran to a nearby business for help. Surveillance footage showed a man in a distinctive yellow sweatshirt discarding a water bottle after the attack; testing of that bottle produced DNA consistent with Meza, who was arrested on Aug. 13, 2024. Authorities and the Ventura County Sexual Assault Kit Initiative credited forensic evidence and investigators for solving the case and securing the conviction.