{"id":502205,"date":"2026-10-20T12:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502205\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T12:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:46:08","slug":"9-arrested-including-clovis-pd-pursuit-suspect-in-human-trafficking-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502205\/","title":{"rendered":"9 arrested, including Clovis PD pursuit suspect, in human trafficking bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A two-day operation targeting human traffickers and child predators led to nine arrests in Clovis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The operation was conducted Friday and Saturday with help from the California Department of Justice and Breaking the Chains, a local nonprofit that helps victims of human trafficking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Eight of the nine suspects were taken into custody without incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities confirmed a multi-vehicle crash Friday happened as one of the suspects, 28-year-old William Vallejo, tried to escape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers pursued Vallejo until he crashed into several vehicles at Shields and Armstrong before he was taken away in handcuffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Several people were injured in the crash but are expected to be okay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">During the investigation, several victims of human trafficking were found and turned over to Breaking the Chains for help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police are still searching for 36-year-old Kyle Riechel, who is wanted on several felony charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call Clovis Police.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A two-day operation targeting human traffickers and child predators led to nine arrests in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[194455,112,114,113],"class_list":["post-502205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-194455","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502205","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=502205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}