{"id":202560,"date":"2026-03-03T18:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/202560\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T18:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:54:08","slug":"fresno-man-sentenced-after-stealing-1000-worth-of-pokemon-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/202560\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno man sentenced after stealing $1,000 worth of Pok\u00e9mon cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Fresno man has been sentenced for stealing $1,000 worth of Pok\u00e9mon cards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">31-year-old Michael Ryan Baker was given four years in prison in a Tulare County courtroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Visalia Police responded to a gas station in April of last year for a theft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Witnesses say Baker lifted his shirt in a threatening manner as if he had a weapon in his waistband while he took the popular trading cards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was arrested two days later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Baker also had a 2016 robbery conviction in Fresno County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fresno man has been sentenced for stealing $1,000 worth of Pok\u00e9mon cards. 31-year-old Michael Ryan Baker was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,622,114,113,16387,94009,28993,8412,94010],"class_list":{"0":"post-202560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-county","10":"tag-fresno-headlines","11":"tag-fresno-news","12":"tag-gas-station","13":"tag-michael-ryan-baker","14":"tag-pokemon-cards","15":"tag-tulare-county","16":"tag-visalia-police"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202560","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=202560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}