About 4:45 Thursday morning, Clovis Police received a call of a vehicle burglary in the 2000 block of Gibson. A woman reported hearing her car alarm go off, and checked her vehicle to find that a window had been smashed and her cell phone had been stolen. Officers in the vicinity spotted the suspect vehicle speeding out of the neighborhood, and getting on Highway 168. They stopped the car as it got off on the Bullard off ramp. Clovis Police found not only the woman’s cell phone in the car, but also stolen items from other vehicle burglaries in the area bounded by Shaw Avenue to the south, Sierra to the north, Fowler to the west and DeWolf to the east.

Clovis Police need your help finding two people they say stole a woman's credit card and then used it to spend thousands of dollars.

Police say the woman was shopping at the Target on Shaw and Clovis last month when a man and a woman stole a credit card from her purse when she wasn't looking.

Investigators say the two then charged about $2,000 on the card before the victim was able to close the account.

Anyone with information on this case is asked to call the Clovis Police Department at (559) 324-2800.

A former Clovis firefighter was arrested and charged with stealing tens of thousands of dollars from a firefighters' union, the Fresno County District Attorney's Office announced Friday.

37-year-old John Morton Watson is charged with embezzling as much as $150,000 from the Clovis Firefighters Association between 2004 and 2011 when he served as the association's treasurer, the DA said.

Watson surrendered to police. He was booked and later released on his own recognizance.

According to the DA, Watson pleaded not guilty to all charges on March 27. His next hearing is scheduled for May 1.

Watson served as a Clovis firefighter for 12 years.

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