YOSEMITE LAKES PARK – Late Thursday night, deputies were dispatched to the 42000 block of Holiday Way in Yosemite Lakes Park for a report of gunshots being heard in the area. As the deputies were responding, Sheriff’s Dispatch received several more calls from residents who reported hearing shots being fired.

MADERA COUNTY – The Madera County Sheriff-Coroner has determined the identity of the man killed during an officer involved shooting on Thursday near Millerton Lake as 61-year-old Gilbert Jake Vanderburgh. Detectives have also learned through their investigation that the man who fled the scene and remains on the loose is 29-year-old Kyle Patrick Snipes. Snipes is described as a white ...

MADERA COUNTY – Officers and deputies continue their search for a man suspected in an auto theft, following an officer involved shooting near Millerton Lake. A police standoff began at around 4 a.m. this morning, when members of the Fresno HEAT* (Help Eliminate Auto Theft) Task Force located a stolen car in Fresno County.

MADERA COUNTY – The Oakhurst office of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) will conduct a Sobriety/Drivers License Checkpoint on Saturday, June 27, somewhere within the unincorporated area of Madera County. In addition, specially assigned officers will patrol the surrounding area searching for DUI drivers. Sobriety/Drivers License Checkpoints will be staffed by CHP Officers who are trained in the detection of ...

COARSEGOLD – A Coarsegold man who lost his life in a motorcycle crash on Highway 41 last week has been identified as 72-year-old Charles Hamm. Hamm was southbound on a Kawasaki motorcycle at 1:33 p.m. on June 18, just south of Serpa Canyon, when he failed to notice that traffic was stopped in the road ahead of him. He collided ...

COARSEGOLD – A crash just south of Serpa Canyon Road reduced traffic to one lane just before noon today. Joy Wood, 57, of Coarsegold, was southbound on Highway 41 in a 2006 Altima at a stated speed of 55 mph, when, for unknown reasons, she veered into oncoming traffic and collided head-on with another vehicle, according to CHP at the ...

YOSEMITE LAKES PARK – A mother and son were both arrested for driving under the influence last night after their car overturned in front the fire station in YLP. Just after 9 p.m. on Tuesday, June 23, Noah Garfoot, 20, of Coarsegold, was eastbound on Glacier Drive just east of Longhollow Drive, when for unknown reasons, his car veered off ...

OAKHURST – On Wednesday, sheriff’s deputies arrested 36-year-old Krystal McNally and served a search warrant on her apartment on Red Bud Drive in Oakhurst. This operation was the culmination of several weeks of investigation initiated after a residential burglary in Oakhurst where checks, credit cards, photo ID, a vehicle, and power tools were stolen.

BASS LAKE – Last week, Sheriff’s deputies received a tip from a cabin owner in the Beasore Meadows area that unknown people were staying in his cabin without his permission and possibly manufacturing methamphetamine. There have also been a number of recent burglaries in this area. Sheriff’s Office personnel along with a US Forest Service Law Enforcement Officer checked the ...

COARSEGOLD – A fatal crash between a truck and a motorcycle has closed Highway 41 between Serpa Canyon and Road 420. Southbound traffic is being turned around at Road 420 on the north, and at Serpa Canyon on the south. The accident happened near the Broken Bit. No estimate has been given for reopening the roadway. Motorists are advised to ...