Gang Members Arrested For Firearms

Coalinga Police Department Press Release August 7 – 9:29 AM “Gang Members Arrested for Possession of Loaded Firearms” On Tuesday, August 6, 2019, at approximately 11:31 pm, Coalinga Police Officers contacted 21-year-old Arturo Padilla, 19-year-old Dillon Derickson and 18-year-old Wendy Wilson, in a parked vehicle in the 200 block of East Elm Avenue. All three are residents…

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Fresno Sheriff’s Office Asks Public To Help

Press Release August 1, 2019 Tony Botti, Fresno Sheriff’s Office The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office needs the public’s help in locating Donald Donato. He has failed to update his annual sex offender registration and has not updated his home address, which is required by law. He was last known to be residing in Mendota. Donato…

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MISSING: Zaylee Ortiz

On Wednesday July 31, 2019 at approximately 2:16 AM, Coalinga Police were sent to a home in the 200 block of N. Fourth Street on a report of a missing 10-year-old identified as Zaylee Ortiz. Family members stated they last saw Zaylee yesterday around 2:00 PM when she told her grandmother she was going to…

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Property Crimes Detectives Capture Serial Robber in Western Fresno County

Property crimes detective with the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office have booked Juan Pinones-Salazar of Coalinga in the Fresno County Jail. He faces felony charges of robbery, attempted robbery, using a deadly weapon to commit a felony and resisting arrest. His bail is set at $122,500. At 10:30 pm on Thursday, Fresno County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to a robbery…

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CDCR Investigating Riot at Pleasant Valley State Prison

Press Release From Pleasant Valley State Prison JULY 18, 2019  COALINGA – Officials started an investigation of an incident that occurred today at around 9:40 a.m. when approximately 41 inmates were involved in a riot on the Facility B recreation yard at Pleasant Valley State Prison (PVSP). The incident began when three inmates started attacking…

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