{"id":145533,"date":"2026-01-23T01:18:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T01:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/145533\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T01:18:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T01:18:39","slug":"3-people-arrested-for-separate-attacks-on-postal-workers-in-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/145533\/","title":{"rendered":"3 people arrested for separate attacks on postal workers in Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The Fresno Police Department announced that three people have been arrested for two unrelated attacks on U.S. Postal employees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">One of the suspects is identified as Brett Thomas, and the other two are teenagers<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">This comes after federal workers have been targeted in three separate violent encounters in less than a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">RELATED: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/post\/fresno-postal-workers-targeted-3-violent-encounters-last-week\/18445836\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fresno postal workers targeted in 3 violent encounters in last week<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police say Thomas was taken into custody for threatening a postal worker with a box cutter yesterday afternoon at Cornell and Maroa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It happened after his dog was pepper-sprayed by the carrier following an aggressive encounter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The two teens were taken into custody following an incident on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police say the two teens assaulted the postal worker in an attempted robbery at Marks and Dakota.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The search is still on for a third suspect who attacked a postal worker last week in Central Fresno, taking their wallet, keys and phone.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The Fresno Police Department announced that three people have been arrested for two unrelated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[72641,72640,112,114,113,294],"class_list":{"0":"post-145533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-72641","9":"tag-3-people-arrested-for-separate-attacks-on-postal-workers-in-fresno","10":"tag-fresno","11":"tag-fresno-headlines","12":"tag-fresno-news","13":"tag-timely"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145533","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=145533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}