North Fork man arrested for child molestation
A 31-year-old North Fork man is behind bars facing child molestation charges.
Sergeant Matt Mollet and Deputy Robert Blehm arrested Jose Burgos who called the Sheriff's Department shortly after 1:30 p.m. Jan. 30, saying that he got drunk Saturday night and evidently assaulted a child at a home in North Fork. He said he thought she was someone else. He said he felt guilty about it and needed to speak with a deputy.
As drug addiction sweeps the nation, touching every socio-economic class from those living in poverty to the country club set, not even the small communities of Eastern Madera County have escaped the grip of one of the most powerful and potent drugs on th
John P. Anderson, Sheriff-Coroner
Contact: Erica H. Stuart, P.I.O.
Phone: (559) 675-7976
Pager: (559) 661-6831
E-Mail: estuart@madera-county.comStranger flees house when he realizes it's occupied
A California Highway Patrol check point on Highway 41 in Oakhurst during a light rain last Saturday night resulted in zero arrests and just two misdemeanor citations for driving without a license.
The Madera County Sheriff's Department is investigating a murder-suicide that occurred in Nipinnawasee involving a mother and her 5-year-old daughter.
A fire and $300,000 worth of losses are not enough to keep William Swigart from doing what he feels is his calling.
When the season of marijuana raids wraps up, thousands of plants, worth millions, will have been eradicated from the county, but left behind will be heaps of rubbish.
Considered among area law enforcement agencies to be the most violent crime against local ecology, the far-reaching effects of marijuana growth on national public lands are largely unknown and unmitigated.
