Tulare Co. (KMJ)\u00a0 Justice finally caught up with 31\u2011year\u2011old Fresno resident Michael Ryan Baker\u2014earning him a four\u2011year ticket to state prison for robbery.<\/p>\n
It all started around 9:30 a.m. on April 25, 2025, when Visalia Police raced to a gas station on Dinuba Boulevard after reports of a bold theft.\u00a0 Baker had swiped $1,000 worth of Pok\u00e9mon cards\u2014yes, a small fortune in trading cardboard. When confronted, witnesses say he lifted his shirt as if he had a weapon tucked in his waistband, turning a simple theft into a dangerous moment.<\/p>\n
He bolted from the store, but employees quickly discovered his getaway car parked right behind the building, trunk wide open like he was loading up for a heist movie. Baker fled\u2014but not for long. Surveillance footage did the talking, and officers arrested him two days later.<\/p>\n
Baker pleaded no contest to felony second\u2011degree robbery\u2014on top of a prior serious robbery conviction from Fresno County in 2016. This time, the court made sure the consequences stuck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tulare Co. (KMJ)\u00a0 Justice finally caught up with 31\u2011year\u2011old Fresno resident Michael Ryan Baker\u2014earning him a four\u2011year ticket…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-202544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202544","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=202544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}