{"id":145798,"date":"2026-01-23T04:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/145798\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T04:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:32:12","slug":"3-people-arrested-for-separate-attacks-on-postal-workers-in-fresno-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/145798\/","title":{"rendered":"3 people arrested for separate attacks on postal workers in Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Fresno Police Department announced that three people have been arrested for two unrelated attacks on U.S. Postal employees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One of the suspects is identified as Brett Thomas, and the other two are teenagers<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This comes after federal workers have been targeted in three separate violent encounters in less than a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/fresno-postal-workers-targeted-3-022649033.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Fresno postal workers targeted in 3 violent encounters in last week;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fresno postal workers targeted in 3 violent encounters in last week<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It happened after his dog was pepper-sprayed by the carrier following an aggressive encounter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The two teens were taken into custody following an incident on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say the two teens assaulted the postal worker in an attempted robbery at Marks and Dakota.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fresno Police Department announced that three people have been arrested for two unrelated attacks on U.S. Postal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[72721,6155,112,114,113,1057,72722,72723],"class_list":{"0":"post-145798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-brett-thomas","9":"tag-federal-workers","10":"tag-fresno","11":"tag-fresno-headlines","12":"tag-fresno-news","13":"tag-fresno-police-department","14":"tag-postal-worker","15":"tag-violent-encounters"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145798","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=145798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}