Fresno Police Deputy Chief Mindy Casto, second from left, stands next to Police Chief Paco Balderrama, center, at a news ...

I’m grateful for God, because this wasn’t my plan,” said Mindy Casto, who had been interim chief since last year.

Thursday’s appointment of Mindy Casto as Fresno’s 24th police chief is a celebratory ... Casto, 49, succeeds the city’s first Latino police chief, Paco Balderrama, who resigned last June because of an ...

Mindy Casto was named the police chief for the Fresno Police Department, marking the 24th department chief, and first woman to hold the permanent position in the department’s history. "On June 13, ...

Mindy Casto is now wearing four stars on her collar after serving as Fresno's acting/interim police chief since last June.