{"id":198406,"date":"2026-02-28T20:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/198406\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T20:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:23:10","slug":"police-search-for-man-involved-in-chase-hit-and-run-in-central-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/198406\/","title":{"rendered":"Police search for man involved in chase, hit-and-run in Central Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, February 28, 2026 8:02PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. &#8212; The Fresno Police Department is searching for a hit-and-run suspect who led officers on a pursuit that ended in a crash near McKinley and Fruit shortly before midnight on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers tried to pull over a driver for several traffic violations, but the driver sped away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">During the pursuit, the driver crashed into another car that had two people, who were taken to Community Regional Medical Center and are expected to be okay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The driver who initiated the pursuit fled the scene and is described as a black man in his early 20s wearing dark clothing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Two passengers in the suspect&#8217;s vehicle were detained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">If you have any information, you can call the Fresno Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, February 28, 2026 8:02PM FRESNO, Calif. &#8212; The Fresno Police Department is searching for a hit-and-run suspect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[92280,92278,2392,14253,112,114,113,3695,3317,92277,92276,92279,2592],"class_list":["post-198406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-92280","tag-cars-crash","tag-central-fresno","tag-chase","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-police","tag-friday-night","tag-man-in-20s","tag-man-on-the-run","tag-mckinley-and-fruit","tag-pursuit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198406","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=198406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}