{"id":146112,"date":"2026-01-23T09:38:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T09:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/146112\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T09:38:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T09:38:20","slug":"3-people-arrested-in-alleged-attacks-on-u-s-mail-carriers-fresno-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/146112\/","title":{"rendered":"3 people arrested in alleged attacks on U.S. mail carriers, Fresno police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Three people were arrested in connection with alleged unrelated attacks on U.S. postal carriers in a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Fresno Police Department said that at 2:20 p.m. Tuesday, officers responded to North Marks and West Dakota avenues after a reported assault on a mail carrier. Police said the worker was attacked while delivering mail to a community mailbox unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The victim was struck three times in the head and face and was placed in a chokehold, causing difficulty breathing, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspects demanded money, police said. The two juveniles were arrested Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Also on Wednesday, at 12:44 p.m., officers responded to East Cornell and North Maroa avenues after a worker said a man brandished a knife and used pepper spray on an aggressive dog while delivering mail, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man was identified as Brett Timothy Thomas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said the victim did not want to press charges, but detectives issued a Ramey warrant for Thomas, who was arrested Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Last week, a mail carrier was assaulted in the area of West Hammond and North Fruit avenues. The Postal Inspector\u2019s Office is investigating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people were arrested in connection with alleged unrelated attacks on U.S. postal carriers in a week. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113,1057,72809],"class_list":["post-146112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-police-department","tag-postal-carriers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146112","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=146112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}