Location: Sequoia Cider Mill Restaurant, Three Rivers

Incident Date: 2/28/2020

Incident Time: 1900 hours

City: Three Rivers

Posted by: Media Relations

Deputy Kyle Stark was recognized Friday, Feb. 28, 2020, during the Three Rivers Hero Celebration at the Sequoia Cider Mill Restaurant. He is the Sheriff’s Resident Deputy in Three Rivers.

He was born in Sacramento, raised in Humboldt County and moved to Tulare County in 1991.

 
In 2004, he was hired by the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office and worked in the jails for more than a year. Sheriff Mike Boudreaux was his Sergeant at the time. 

Deputy Stark has a background in construction work and then-Sergeant Boudreaux put his skills to work on the job. 

“I led a crew of inmates in a rehabilitation project,” Deputy Stark said. “I taught inmates how to paint and we painted the Bob Wiley Detention Facility from red to blue.”

Inmates learned painting in order to obtain employment after they were released from custody. Over the years since then, Deputy Stark said he’s been contacted by some of the inmates in the painting program and they’re doing construction in Tulare County.

After working in Detentions, Deputy Stark was assigned to patrol at the Porterville Substation and became the Community Based Officer for Strathmore and Lindsay. Not long after that, he was promoted to Gang Detective and worked in the newly formed South County Gang Unit. 

Deputy Stark left the Sheriff’s Office in 2008 and worked for the College of the Sequoias Police Department and later for Exeter Police. He also served as a paid volunteer for the Huron Police Department as a tactical flight officer. 

In 2018, Deputy Stark returned to the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office when Sheriff Boudreaux offered him the position of Resident Deputy in Three Rivers, where he has lived for the last 10 years. 

“I love Three Rivers,” Deputy Stark said. “I like working up here and working with all the people up here and that’s the reason I came back.”

Deputy Stark said he appreciates being honored as a hero by the community of Three Rivers and he appreciates Sheriff Boudreaux offering him the position of Resident Deputy.

Closer to home, Deputy Stark said he wants to thank his wife, Stephanie.

“I’d like to say thank you to my wife, Stephanie, for putting up with me, for the late hours, long days and being grumpy when I come home,” he said. “I’d just like to say I love you and thank you for helping me out.”