Hanford police say 44-year-old Timmy Yanez admitted stabbing a man near Parkside Drive and Cling Circle. YourCentralValley reported that officers found Yanez at a home on Elberta Drive, arrested him without incident and booked him into Kings County Jail on suspicion of attempted murder. Police have not publicly detailed a motive or any relationship between Yanez and the victim.
The victim drove to Adventist Health Hanford before officers reached the scene and collapsed at the entrance, KMPH reported. KMPH also reported that hospital staff provided immediate medical care. He was airlifted to a trauma center, according to YourCentralValley.
The Hanford Police Department’s 2025 annual report does not state that stabbings are excluded from Hanford’s aggravated-assault totals for 2024 and 2025
Hanford Police Department’s 2025 annual report recorded 178 aggravated assaults in the city that year, down from 221 in 2024, a 19% decrease. The department report does not break those figures out by weapon or provide a stabbing-specific count, so they cannot show whether stabbings rose or fell.
Past cases illustrate how different the circumstances can be. In a separate incident reported in March 2024, YourCentralValley said police were dispatched to a stabbing near Seventh and Harris avenues around 7 p.m. on the previous Thursday; a 61-year-old was stabbed, and 63-year-old Lonnie McGhee was arrested, according to the report. In another case, Hanford police said a person was stabbed during a fight inside a JCPenney on May 11, 2024, and multiple suspects fled, according to a department press release.
Those incidents provide examples, not evidence of a broader pattern, and the available reporting does not link them to the Parkside Drive case. Police have not described the circumstances of the latest stabbing beyond the location and their account of the arrest.
