Just before 7 o’clock this morning, Clovis Police responded to a vehicle versus pedestrian accident on the south side of Shaw Avenue at Pollasky. Officers say a woman was struck when a car travelling eastbound jumped the curb and hit her near the bus stop.

Sixth grade students from seven Clovis elementary schools (Freedom, Gettysburg, Jefferson, Miramonte, Reagan, Red Bank, Tarpey) participated in an essay contest last month to answer this question: “If I were Police Chief, what would I do to make the community a safer and better place for students?”

The Clovis Police Department is conducting enhanced-enforcement patrols, in addition to training and education, in an on-going effort to make the city’s streets safe for pedestrians and bicycles. Vehicle drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists will all come under extra scrutiny in this special enforcement.

Just before 8 o’clock this morning, Clovis Police responded to a call of a vehicle versus a bicyclist on the trail at Peach and Alluvial. Before the accident, both eastbound and westbound traffic had stopped at the trail’s flashing lights. It appeared a pedestrian was going to cross the street southbound on the trail. Instead, he turned and went westbound on the sidewalk.

Members of the Clovis Police Crime Scene Investigation Team responded to Clinton and Highland Avenues in Fresno County today after someone called local law enforcement agencies to report seeing the trailer that had been stolen from the Loma Vista Community Church office in Clovis over the weekend.

Clovis Police are asking for the public’s help in locating Loma Vista Community Church’s 24-foot-long Haulmark trailer and the people who stole it before 7:30 a.m. on Sunday morning (4/7) at 1030 Gettysburg Avenue.

About 11:45 this morning, a teenager driving a black Ford Fusion was travelling westbound on Bullard Avenue at Temperance when heard his cell phone ring, and looked down to check the phone number of the caller. When he looked up, he realized that he was running a red light. That’s when the driver of a blue Buick travelling northbound on Temperance hit the Fusion.

(Clovis, CA) – As part of April’s Distracted Driving Awareness Month campaign, the Clovis Police Department will be actively ticketing those texting or operating hand-held cell phones throughout the month. Drivers who break the law and place themselves and others in danger will be cited with no warnings.

Clovis Police tonight are investigating shots being fired in the 2600 block of Lind Avenue between Gettysburg and Rialto for a second night in a row. Officers this evening were following up on an incident that happened very early Wednesday morning that left a bullet lodged in a building. No one was hurt.

Clovis Police this morning arrested 35-year-old Michael Wyatt, a transient, for a felony parole violation. A concerned citizen driving by the corner of Peach and Nees saw Wyatt sitting on the sidewalk near where girls were running on the Buchanan Educational Center’s track.