first police chief scandal in Fresno

Fresno Police Chief Paco Balderrama resigned on Tuesday, following a months-long investigation into an alleged affair he’d been having with the wife of a subordinate officer. The scandal, which broke only after the city issued a news release earlier this month, marred what had been to-that-point a successful tenure for the chief — one that saw reductions in violent crime and an increase in the number of sworn officers serving the city. Balderrama is by no means the first Fresno police chief to become embroiled in controversy. There are stories of scandal within the department all the way back to William T. Shaw in 1906, and at least seven decades worth of documented reports on Fresno police chiefs who were investigated, fired or even jailed for perceived misconduct.

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Egyptian Port Has Reappeared

There are a few questions coming from an archaeological dig on a hillside along the Nile River near the ancient Egyptian city of Aswan. The biggest, though, is exactly why two mummies were glued together inside the same stone coffin. During a joint Italian and Egyptian archaeological mission working in the vicinity of the Aghakhan Shrine west of Aswan, the team explored the multi-level structure crafted into the hillside. Originally discovered outside of official
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Paso women sentenced for poisoning

roles in the fentanyl poisoning death of a 19-year-old single mother, the United States Attorney’s Office Western District of Texas announced Thursday, June 27 in a news release. According to court documents, Kathy Lee Nicole Bradford, 32, coordinated the sale of M-30 pills to a woman in El Paso in April 2022. On Bradford’s behalf, codefendant Patricia Tafoya, 40, delivered 10 counterfeit M-30 pills containing fentanyl to the purchaser, who consumed some of the pills and, as concluded by the El Paso County Medical Examiner’s Office, died of “acute fentanyl toxicity,” according to the news release. Bradford admitted in March to knowing the pills contained fentanyl, pleading guilty to one count of distribution of a controlled substance causing death or serious bodily injury, according to the news release. She was sentenced to 168 months in federal prison.
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