CRIME & SAFETY

Deputies said shots were fired in the area of Club Drive and Midland Way in Madera.

MADERA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – An elementary school was placed on lockdown during a school dance after shots were fired nearby Thursday evening, according to the Madera County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies say around 6:00 p.m. they responded to a shots fired call on Midland Way and Club Drive which is directly adjacent to Berenda Elementary School. […]

MADERA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The former prison guard facing nearly 100 sexual assault charges made his first appearance in court Friday. Gregory Rodriguez is accused of sexually assaulting inmates at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla while he worked there as a correctional officer. The accusations date back to 2014 and include more than […]

MADERA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) — Two people were injured in a double-vehicle collision near Highway 145 outside Madera, officials from the California Highway Patrol (CHP) say. CHP says on Tuesday shortly after 1:00 p.m. officers responded to the report of a major injury crash on Highway 145, between Storey Road and Road 29. When they arrived […]

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A 33-year-old man from Mexico was sentenced to 11 years and four months in prison for conspiring to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, and marijuana, officials with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Monday. Court documents show in January 2019, law enforcement officers […]

Walter Yeager dodged two lynch posses but wound up dying at the end of a rope just the same. This photo was taken of him just before he was executed on San Quenten’s gallows. The tragic assassinations recently of the police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge are causing...

During a traffic stop Sunday afternoon, Madera Police officers found drugs and firearms. Madera PD conducted an enforcement stop on a vehicle being driven by Rick Gallegos. During the vehicle stop, Gallegos was asked to exit the vehicle and when his door was opened MPD saw a firearm. Gallegos was...

MADERA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A 28-year-old Hispanic man has been identified as the person who was shot and killed near a Madera school on Wednesday, officials with the Madera Police Department announced. Police say officers responded to several calls reporting shots fired in the 300 block of South L Street on Wednesday, at approximately 3:35 […]

The Madera Police Department received several calls of shots fired in the 300 block of South L Street, in the City of Madera. Officers responded to the area and located a 28-year-old Hispanic male in the front yard of a residence suffering from multiple gunshot wounds Wednesday at about 3:30 p.m.

“Over the course of the past few months, MPD has received calls from young females and/or their families, regarding a suspicious person exposing himself to them. This has occurred in neighborhoods around our local schools as the students were walking home after school. The unknown subject is in a vehicle,...

MADERA, Calif. — A man accused of driving under the influence was holding up the line at a McDonald’s drive-thru after he decided to take a nap, police say. A 34-year-old, according to the Madera Police Department was found sleeping but luckily with his foot on the brake.

A handful of Central Valley towns has made a list of U.S. cities with the highest rates of identity theft, The post Report: Valley cities see three-year increase in identity theft reports appeared first on The Business Journal.

According to the Madera Police Department, this man walked out of a business with roughly $1,000 worth of shoes and clothing. Anyone with information regarding the suspect’s identity can call Crime Stoppers at 559-498-STOP.