A Fresno homicide case just crossed state lines. A 40-year-old Fresno man, Michael Dorsey, has been arrested in Las Vegas on a California murder warrant tied to a deadly March shooting in southwest Fresno. He is currently being held in Clark County as officials work to bring him back to Fresno.<\/p>\n
Disturbance Call In Vegas Ends With Fresno Murder Arrest<\/p>\n
According to GV Wire<\/a>, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officers ran into Dorsey on April 19 while responding to an unrelated disturbance call. During that contact, they learned he had an active California warrant for murder. Officers then arrested him and booked him into the Clark County Detention Center, where he is waiting on an extradition hearing.<\/p>\n Sixth Homicide Of 2026 In Southwest Fresno<\/p>\n Back on March 19, around 10:02 p.m., Fresno officers were called to the area of East Samson and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. They found Perry Paul Espinosa suffering from a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene, according to ABC30 Fresno<\/a>. That killing marked Fresno’s sixth homicide of 2026 as detectives canvassed the surrounding neighborhood for witnesses.<\/p>\n Detectives Ask For Tips, Media Routed To Police Spokesperson<\/p>\n The Fresno Police Department announced Dorsey’s arrest on its Facebook page and included contact information for anyone who might have helpful information. The post lists Homicide Detective C. Franks at (559) 621-2427 and Crime Stoppers at (559) 498-7867 for anonymous tips. Media are directed to contact Lt. Larry Bowlan at [email\u00a0protected]<\/a>, according to the department’s Facebook post<\/a>.<\/p>\n Held In Downtown Las Vegas While Extradition Looms<\/p>\n Dorsey remains in custody at the Clark County Detention Center as he awaits an extradition hearing that would send him back to Fresno to meet with homicide investigators. The facility is located at 330 S. Casino Center Blvd in downtown Las Vegas, per the Clark County Detention Center<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fresno homicide case just crossed state lines. A 40-year-old Fresno man, Michael Dorsey, has been arrested in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-283917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}