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Madera County Recruiting For Search & Rescue Team

COUNTY – Madera County’s nationally recognized Search & Rescue Team is now accepting applications to join the ranks. The Madera County Sheriff’s Office provides training and novices are welcome. “This academy is considered one of the best within the state of California and nationally,” says Mike Perreira, 2016 Team Leader for the Madera County Search & Rescue Training Academy. “We’re ...

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Highway 41 Crash: Multiple Vehicles, No Injuries

OAKHURST – Just after 11 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 9, CHP responded to an accident on Highway 41 near Golden Oak Loop, involving a total of four vehicles, one of them a motorhome. The driver of the motorhome, a resident of San Jose who was southbound on Highway 41 with one passenger, told CHP that his brakes failed when he ...

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Three-Vehicle Crash On Highway 41 In Oakhurst

OAKHURST – One lane of Highway 41 in Oakhurst was blocked for a short time this morning after a three-vehicle accident near Hodges Hill Drive. At 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 10, Donald Setaro, Jr., 48, of Oakhurst, was southbound on Highway 41 in a 2015 U-Haul truck approaching the north end of Hodges Hill Drive. Mr. Setaro had signaled ...

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Hearing Set For Final Chukchansi Defendant

MADERA – The only defendant to reject a plea deal from the District Attorney’s office in connection with the October 2014 attempted take-over at the Chukchansi Gold Resort and Casino, is headed toward trial. District Attorney David Linn announced yesterday, following a hearing in Department 22 of the Madera Superior Court, that his office will be proceeding to a preliminary ...

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Search Warrant Leads To Identity Theft Arrest

OAKHURST – Two people were arrested early this week following a search that resulted in felony charges. On Tuesday, Nov. 3, Madera County Sheriff’s detectives served a search warrant on a residence in the 49000 block of Greenacre Drive, related to an on-going investigation in Eastern Madera County. Detectives have been conducting an investigation into a string of burglaries, identity ...

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Victim Identified In Fatal Accident On Highway 41

COARSEGOLD – The victim of a single-vehicle accident that occurred just after 1 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 2, has been identified as 40-year-old Ramon Castillo, of Fresno. Castillo was driving a Rockstar delivery truck southbound on Highway 41 just south of Road 416, when he drove off the right side of the road, rolling several times down a steep embankment. ...

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Fatal Accident On Highway 41

COARSEGOLD – Emergency personnel and investigators responded to the scene of a fatal accident on Highway 41 just south of Road 416, near the bottom of the passing lane, just after 1 p.m. this afternoon. A 2011 Kenworth commercial vehicle was southbound on Highway 41 when, for unknown reasons, the truck left the roadway on the west side of the ...

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Oakhurst Resident Charged With Felony DUI

MADERA – The woman who caused a wreck in which four people were injured, and that blocked Highway 41 over Deadwood on Sept. 28, has been charged with felony DUI. Today in Madera Superior Court, charges were filed against Sherry Lynn Abraugh-Getchell, 40, of Oakhurst. Abraugh-Getchell was charged with one felony count of Vehicle Code Section 23153(a), one felony count ...

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Crash Blocks Highway 41 Near Road 417

COARSEGOLD – A single-vehicle rollover accident on Highway 41 slowed the afternoon commute south of Coarsegold today, at about 2:40 p.m. Aaron Hall, 27, of Fresno was southbound just past Fast Tire, about two miles north of Road 417 when, for unknown reasons, he allowed his 2006 PT Cruiser to drift off the right side of the road and up ...

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Coarsegold Man Sentenced To Eight Years In Prison

FRESNO — A Coarsegold man is on his way to prison after pleading guilty to cultivation of marijuana and being a felon in possession of firearms. Lawrence Alexander Tidwell, 32, was sentenced Monday by United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii to eight years in prison, according to United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner. According to court documents, a search ...

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