{"id":443708,"date":"2026-08-26T04:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/443708\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T04:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:18:11","slug":"man-arrested-for-alleged-kidnapping-assault-of-woman-in-clovis-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/443708\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for alleged kidnapping, assault of woman in Clovis, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A man has been arrested following an alleged assault and kidnapping of a woman in Clovis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Clovis Police say just before 8 a.m. Tuesday, officers responded to several reports of a man who had just hit a woman, forced her into his car and driven away near Herndon and Fowler avenues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Detectives, using witness information and technology, located the suspect&#8217;s vehicle with the victim in the city of Fresno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">35-year-old Steven Hamby of Clovis was arrested without incident and the victim is now safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Hamby has been booked into the Fresno County Jail on charges including kidnapping, domestic violence and possession of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Hamby&#8217;s bail has been set at $76,000 but he is currently not eligible to bond out due to a probation violation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">If you are the victim of domestic abuse, or you know someone who is, there is help available 24\/7. In Fresno County, call the\u00a0<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/mmcenter.org\/\" dir=\"ltr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marjaree Mason Center<\/a>\u00a0at (559) 233-4357. In all other locations, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at (800) 799-7233.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A man has been arrested following an alleged assault and kidnapping of a woman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[175789,112,114,113],"class_list":["post-443708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-175789","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443708","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=443708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}