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FRESNO  -  Detectives from the Fresno Police Department's Career Criminal Auto Theft Team (CCATT) responded Wednesday  along with Southeast District patrol officers to the area of University and Woodrow regarding a suspicious occupied vehicle.

When officers arrived, they located the 2009 Buick Enclave which they found to be a reported stolen vehicle out of Southeast Fresno. The driver was identified as John Fernandez (42) of Fresno. Fernandez was booked into the Fresno County Jail for felony auto theft charges.

FRESNO - Northeast District Officer Arthur Deleon from the Fresno Police Department responded to the 3300 block of N. Maple Ave were the victim reported 51 year-old Floyd Dachawn King of Fresno brandished a firearm in a rude and threatening manner.

During the incident, King charged his weapon several times causing live .45 caliber bullets to eject from the firearm and fall to the ground. Officer Deleon learned through his investigation King was on parole with a GPS monitor. Deleon contacted King’s parole agent who confirmed the ankle monitor was active and indicated he was at his residence.

MADERA - Madera Police are investigating the mysterious death of Luis Echevarria from Madera.  The thirty-three year was found behind the wheel of his 2004 BMW by Cal-Fire who were responding to a car on fire in front of Lincoln Elementary School on Liberty and Barton Streets.

The fire was reported a little after midnight Tuesday morning on Madera’s west-side. Police and fire arrived on the scene within minutes to a fully engulfed vehicle. Once firefighters put out the fire the victim’s body was discovered in the drivers-side front seat and a fire scene then turned into a crime scene.

FRESNO -  Terrence Goldberg, 35, of Brook Park, Minnesota, was sentenced today to 16 years in prison, to be followed by 15 years of supervised release for two counts of receipt and distribution of child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. According to court documents, investigators in Rochester, New York detected Goldberg sharing child pornography files in 2016 from a location at which a children’s camp operated in Madera County, California.

When agents located Goldberg in North Fork, California, on July 11, 2016, he was actively downloading child pornography files outside of a church. Goldberg admitted that he had been downloading child pornography and consented to a search of electronic devices that he had been using. He then relocated to Minnesota, and investigators with FBI offices in Minnesota and Wisconsin opened their own investigations after they detected Goldberg sharing child pornography files from October 2016 through May 2017.

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.

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.