Fresno police ask for help finding missing man Jerome Saldivar

Fresno police are asking residents, business owners and drivers to help locate Jerome Saldivar, 55, who was last seen near East Clinton Avenue west of North Blackstone Avenue in Fresno around 9 p.m. on Sunday, May 10. Investigators have not publicly identified a suspect or said why Saldivar disappeared, and the case remains a missing-person search with no confirmed crime scene.

Saldivar is described as 6 feet tall, about 200 pounds, with very short brown hair, brown eyes and prescription glasses. He was last seen wearing blue jeans and a gray-and-red work shirt with a name tag on the front, details police say could matter if someone spotted him in a store, on foot or near a transit stop in the neighborhood.

The strongest leads may come from anyone who noticed who Saldivar was with, whether he got into a vehicle, or whether anything unusual happened in the East Clinton and Blackstone area late that night. Detectives are trying to narrow down his last known movements, and even one precise recollection from a nearby business, driveway, parking lot or bus stop could help place him on a clearer timeline. Because the disappearance has now stretched beyond two weeks, police are relying on the public to fill in the gaps.

Anyone with information should call the Fresno Police Department at (559) 621-7000. The City of Fresno says residents who want to report ongoing criminal activity or suspicious circumstances should call Fresno police directly, and the department operates across five policing districts. The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office says missing-person reports should go to the law-enforcement agency that serves the place where the person was last seen, which in this case is Fresno police. The California Department of Justice also maintains a Missing Person Search database, but state officials note it is only a subset of all missing-person reports in California.

For Fresno, the search is centered on a familiar stretch of streets where a single late-night sighting may be the difference between uncertainty and a lead. Police are asking that any tip, no matter how small, be reported as soon as possible.