{"id":145647,"date":"2026-01-23T02:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/145647\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T02:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:42:08","slug":"undercover-dea-agents-involved-in-crash-on-highway-99-during-drug-operation-chp-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/145647\/","title":{"rendered":"Undercover DEA agents involved in crash on Highway 99 during drug operation, CHP says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, January 23, 2026 2:09AM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Undercover DEA agents involved in crash on Highway 99 during drug operation, CHP says\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The California Highway Patrol says undercover Drug Enforcement Administration agents were involved in a crash on Highway 99 during a drug operation Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The crash happened during the evening commute on northbound Highway 99 near the Highway 180 interchange.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">CHP officers say three people have been detained as part of the operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Action News cameras captured at least one of the detainees on the shoulder of the highway, surrounded by DEA agents and CHP officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Further details of the investigation have yet to be released, and authorities have not confirmed if anyone was injured in the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Traffic on northbound Highway 99 is currently impacted by the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Stay with ABC30 for the latest details on this developing story.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, January 23, 2026 2:09AM FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The California Highway Patrol says undercover Drug Enforcement Administration&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[72665,13362,112,114,113,294,72664],"class_list":{"0":"post-145647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-72665","9":"tag-chp-says","10":"tag-fresno","11":"tag-fresno-headlines","12":"tag-fresno-news","13":"tag-timely","14":"tag-undercover-dea-agents-involved-in-crash-on-highway-99-during-drug-operation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145647","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=145647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}