Former Fresno County sheriff passes away at 80

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Fresno County Sheriff's Office is honoring the beingness of erstwhile Sheriff Richard Pierce, who passed distant peacefully with his household by his side.

Pierce began his vocation arsenic a Deputy Sheriff with the Fresno County Sheriff's Office successful 1966.

He would spell connected to enactment a assortment of assignments and enactment his mode up the ranks, earlier yet being elected arsenic Fresno County's 24th Sheriff successful 1998.

Sheriff Pierce served 2 presumption and retired from his instrumentality enforcement vocation successful 2007, marking 40 years of nationalist service.

Pierce is survived by his wife, 5 children and respective grandchildren.

He passed distant connected Wednesday.

Pierce was 80 years old.