{"id":1800,"date":"2025-10-13T16:29:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/1800\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T16:29:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:29:16","slug":"fresno-man-arrested-for-after-attacking-man-at-bus-stop-and-k9-with-asphalt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/1800\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno man arrested for after attacking man at bus stop and K9 with asphalt"},"content":{"rendered":"

FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Fresno police say a man was arrested, accused of assaulting a person at a bus stop and attacking a police K9 with a chunk of asphalt on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n

Officers with the Southwest patrol were alerted Tuesday night around 8:00 p.m., to the area of Calaveras Street and Van Ness Avenue regarding an assault. <\/p>\n

Investigators say the suspect, later identified as 27-year-old Keon Pyant, struck a man seated at a bus stop twice in the head with a large piece of asphalt, causing a significant laceration. <\/p>\n

The man who was attacked was treated on scene by EMS and refused to be taken to a hospital. <\/p>\n

Police say Pyant quickly left the area but was found shortly after by Skywatch. <\/p>\n

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When a K9 officer made contact, Pyant became uncooperative and was armed with a second piece of asphalt. <\/p>\n

Police say Pyant raised the piece of asphalt toward officers multiple times.<\/p>\n

Officers sent out K9 Nick, who was hit in the face by Pyant, breaking a tooth, but managed to successfully catch Pyant. <\/p>\n

K9 Nick was taken to Fresno Emergency Vet for treatment and is expected to make a full recovery.<\/p>\n

Pyant was arrested and booked into Fresno County Jail on multiple charges, including assault with a deadly weapon, felony assault on an officer, felony assault on a police canine and resisting an officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Fresno police say a man was arrested, accused of assaulting a person at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[237,2600,2598,2602,112,114,113,2599,236,2601],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-arrest","tag-asphalt","tag-assault","tag-charges","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-k9","tag-police","tag-victim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","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=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}