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Fresno PD Response Team Takes Another Gang-Banger & Gun Off the Streets of Fresno

FRESNO - Early Sunday morning officers from the Fresno Police Department’s Southeast Special Response Team (SE SRT) (Officer Steve Baiza and Officer Sergio Gonzalez) were assigned to a city wide gang operation. They were proactively patrolling the area of Dakota and Effie Avenues in an effort to reduce gang violence and shootings.

They initiated a traffic stop for a vehicle code violation. They contacted the driver, 27 year-old Jacar Jones, a Six Deuce Diamond Crip Criminal Street Gang Member. Jones admitted to the officers he possessed a Glock handgun in his vehicle. Jones told the officers he legally possessed his firearm because he has a permit to carry.

Football Jersey Points Out Suspect in Weekend Burglaries

MADERA - Over the course of the past week, the same unknown male had burglarized three local Madera businesses in the area of Howard Road, Pine Street, and Fairview Avenue. Officers worked diligently on these cases, and through their investigations were able to positively identify the suspect as 33-year-old Joshua Sanchez of Madera.

Last evening, as one of our officers were driving home after work, Joshua was spotted around businesses in the area of Howard Road and Pine Street, wearing the same jersey he decided to wear during one of the burglaries.

Atwater Police Make Arrest in Weekend Skateboard Park Stabbing

ATWATER – Last weekend Atwater Police Officers were dispatched to the 100 block of Kelso Street to conduct a welfare check on a 15-year-old juvenile. This juvenile had Skyped a third party indicating he had been stabbed at a park in Atwater.

While searching for the reporting party, Mercy Hospital in Merced called and said they had a victim and his father in the ER suffering from a stab wound. This person was confirmed to the be the person that the original reporting party was calling dispatch about.

105th Clovis Rodeo Kicks Off Last Weekend of April

CLOVIS - The dedicated volunteers who make sure the Clovis Rodeo tradition remains a part of the community’s future are hard-at-work putting the finishing touches on this year’s 105^th Clovis Rodeo to be held April 25-28, 2019. The same group of volunteers are also busy planning for next year’s rodeo. Always making sure the rodeo grows and gives back to others, while still maintaining the community’s western traditions and the “Clovis Way of Life.”

Kicking things off right for 2020 will be a new entrance for the Clovis Rodeo grounds that will still be off of Clovis Avenue but more in line with 7^th Street and where the Centennial Bronze statue stands. On Friday, March 29 Clovis residents will see the old gas station building in front of the grounds raised to make-way for the new entrance that will include four traffic lanes into the rodeo parking lot, creating a more accessible, safer entry and exit for rodeo guests. A new digital message board along Clovis Avenue will be a part of the improvements.

Major Bust Made in Felony Mail and Identity Theft Case

FRESNO - On Friday morning after a four month investigation, Justin Deger of Fresno was arrested for felony identity theft and mail theft. Deger came on the Fresno Police Department's Northwest District Investigation Unit radar after several arrests for burglary. Each time during those arrests, Deger was found in possession of large amounts of mail not belonging to him.

Northwest Investigation Unit detectives and staff at the district station began receiving information from the public regarding a silver Ford Mustang being captured on Ring video surveillance system cameras. The vehicle was either seen driving through neighborhoods in the early morning hours or seen stopped in front of mailboxes removing mail. Information was provided via the Nextdoor.com social media site regarding the same suspicious vehicle.