CLOVIS, California — Clovis Police detectives have arrested two men for alleged possession of child sexual exploitation material (CSAM) after tips from the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, the Clovis Police Department said in an official release reported by ABC30 Fresno. The two arrests — in Fresno and in Clovis, in California's Central Valley — stemmed from alleged illegal CSAM activity on the social media platforms Kik and Instagram, police said. Both men are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court.

Source: Clovis Police Department

Detectives first served a search warrant at a home in Fresno, where they arrested 27-year-old Joshua Ramirez without incident, the department said. During that search, detectives said they located additional items of CSAM on Ramirez's cell phone.

Detectives then responded to a business in Clovis, where they arrested 21-year-old Gurmeet Singh, police said. The release did not say what business it was, what role Singh allegedly played beyond the possession allegation, or whether the two men's cases are connected to each other beyond coming out of the same ICAC tip stream.

How the tips reached Clovis detectives

The tips about both suspects were turned over to the Clovis Police Department by the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force for investigation, the department said. Clovis police said they receive tips about the possession of child sexual exploitation material on a consistent basis, and that those tips are investigated by specially trained detectives because of the sensitive nature of the cases. In its release the department did not give the exact day of the arrests, saying they were made 'yesterday' before the release was posted; ABC30 Fresno reported the arrests under its coverage of the department's 'Operation No Tricks No Treats'.

The warning police sent to parents

Clovis detectives urged parents to monitor their children's social media accounts frequently — and randomly. 'Our detectives are seeing more CSAM activity currently on Kik, Roblox, and Discord, however criminals can target children on any social media or gaming platform,' the department said. That warning, aimed at families across the Central Valley, is the part of this story police most want shared: the platforms named are ones children and teenagers use every day, including in Punjabi and other immigrant households across Fresno County, where Clovis and Fresno sit side by side.

What the release does not say

The department's release does not announce formal charges beyond the possession allegation, does not give a bond amount or a court date for either man, and does not describe any victim — CSAM possession cases, as police frame them, are built on material found on devices and accounts, and no child was identified in the release. Awaaz Punjab is not naming or describing any minor, and there is no suggestion in the release that either man is accused of contacting a local child in person. Those distinctions matter, and any further allegation would have to come from prosecutors or the court record.

Background: a steady stream of Central Valley cases

Clovis, a city of Fresno County in the heart of the Central Valley, has seen a series of ICAC-driven arrests and search warrants in recent weeks — in a separate recent release, the same department said detectives had served four search warrants at Clovis homes in two days in other CSAM investigations, with one arrest. Sunday's arrests are a separate pair of cases from that release and from the department's October human-trafficking operation, and they show the same pattern: a tip from the national ICAC system, a local search warrant, a phone or device examined, and an arrest.

What happens next

The cases now move from detectives to the Fresno County court process. The next confirmed steps to watch are the formal filing of charges by prosecutors, first court appearances for Ramirez and Singh, and any further release from Clovis Police about devices seized or additional tips. Until a court rules, the allegations in the police release remain exactly that — allegations — and both men are entitled to the presumption of innocence.