{"id":127351,"date":"2026-01-10T00:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/127351\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T00:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:28:08","slug":"jason-statham-lookalike-wanted-in-irvine-whole-foods-heist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/127351\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Statham lookalike wanted in Irvine Whole Foods heist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California cops are hunting down a dollar store Jason Statham \u2014 or at least a \u201cless attractive version\u201d of him \u2014 who allegedly ripped off a Whole Foods for $1,700 worth of caviar last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not Jason Statham filming an action scene in a grocery store,\u201d the Irvine Police Department joked in a \u201cWanted Wednesday\u201d post seeking the public\u2019s help in locating the perpetrator.<\/p>\n<p>The fish egg theft was all smoke and mirrors, with not-Statham apparently trying to disguise his crime by selecting a handful of everyday items to appear like a typical shopper.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.70214844;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38143664\" width=\"414\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/irvine-police-asking-public-s-118590273.jpg\" alt=\"Surveillance image of a bald man with a beard, wearing a black shirt, carrying a brown paper bag and a green plastic tote.\" class=\"wp-image-38143664\"  \/>A man stole approximately $1,700 worth of caviar from an Irvine Whole Foods last month by hiding the items in a paper bag. Irvine Police Department<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.66503906;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38143665\" width=\"392\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/resurrection-jason-statham-2016-118590461.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Statham holding a rifle in &quot;Mechanic: Resurrection&quot;.\" class=\"wp-image-38143665\"  \/>Police describe the suspect as a bald man with facial hair, dressed in all black, who resembles a \u201cless attractive version\u201d of actor Jason Statham. Lions Gate\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n<p>But cops say he hid the expensive caviar tins in a Whole Foods bag he brought with him, ditched his shopping basket and walked out of the store with the luxury goods.<\/p>\n<p>The theft was discovered after an employee noticed the entire caviar section had been emptied and reviewed security footage. <\/p>\n<p>Management later saw the suspect allegedly taking tins priced between $99 and $170 each, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/news\/caviar-thief-irvine-whole-foods\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Fox 11<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California cops are hunting down a dollar store Jason Statham \u2014 or at least a \u201cless attractive version\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,38222,10038,3586],"class_list":{"0":"post-127351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-caviar","12":"tag-heists","13":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}