OAKHURST – A month and a half long investigation into drug trafficking and sales in the mountains came to a successful conclusion Thursday afternoon, May 29, with the arrest of two Oakhurst residents and the recovering of heroin, meth, marijuana, ammunition and a gun, according to the Madera County Sheriff’s Office.

Frank Gauthier’s background in law enforcement, the military and the private sector has provided him with experience he says is very unusual in politics, and uniquely qualifies him to be Sheriff of Madera County. Frank is an Air Force brat who was born in Germany in 1966, and raised in Madera County, where his father Milt was with the Sheriff’s ...

BASS LAKE – A single-vehicle crash at Bass Lake on Thursday, May 22, turned into an hour-long search for the driver who bailed, and was followed by an arrest for felony DUI. A group from Fresno was camping at Recreation Point when they decided to take a drive on Road 432 along the north shore of the lake.

OAKHURST – Traffic was slowed to one lane for nearly 90 minutes this afternoon as a single vehicle accident was cleared from Highway 41 just north of the Cedar Valley turnoff. Just after 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 22, an Ahwahnee man was headed south on Highway 41 in a contractor’s pickup when he says he came around a corner ...

MADERA COUNTY – An Oakhurst woman found guilty of beating a puppy in August of 2012 has been sentenced to two years behind bars. Last week, Janice Mossman Aguilar, 41, of Oakhurst, was sentenced to county jail for violating the terms of her probation, previously ordered by the Sierra Division of the Madera Superior Court at Bass Lake, according to ...

FRESNO — Today a federal grand jury indicted the man alleged to be responsible for pipe bombs found at a Chowchilla Shell Gas Station on March 28, and at the Crossroads Christian School in Madera on May 4, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.

O’NEALS – Agents with the Madera County Narcotic Enforcement Team (MADNET) today uncovered a vast illegal marijuana growing operation hidden on 40 acres of private land in the foothills of Eastern Madera County. Greenhouses – some nearly the size of a football field – dotted the landscape. Each garden contained hundreds of fully budded plants, and a nearby shed was ...

MADERA COUNTY – A second arrest has been made in a case of horse theft in Madera County. The Madera County Sheriff’s Office AG Crimes Investigation Unit has been able to confirm that one of the horses allegedly stolen by Summer Tex in 2013 was in fact shipped out of state for slaughter. Billy Ray Brown, Jr., 45, of Madera, ...

MADERA COUNTY – Sheriff John Anderson is issuing fraud alerts concerning two scams that continue to prey on Madera County citizens. In one case, a senior citizen lost nearly $5,000. First scam – If you receive a call on your cell phone displaying a series of numbers, sometimes 10 zeroes (0000000000), or a strange combination of numbers, do NOT answer.

MADERA COUNTY – Did you get a phone call from the Madera County Sheriff’s Office at 2:30 p.m. this afternoon? If not, you are probably not signed up for MCAlert. MCAlert is a free service that will notify you in the event of an emergency in your area, no matter where you are. Would you want to know if a ...