Clovis man sentenced after resisting arrest

 On September 2, 2024, Jose Villalta of Clovis was sentenced to eight years in the Department of Corrections for Disarming a Peace Officer and Battery on a Peace Officer.

On November 22, 2023, Officers with the Clovis Police Department responded to a domestic in progress on Maple Street in Clovis.  The officers went to handcuff the defendant, and he began resisting the officers as they attempted to handcuff him.  Villalta hit one officer in the face during the struggle and grabbed another officers taser, preventing the officer from using the device.