{"id":202594,"date":"2026-03-03T19:20:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/202594\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T19:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:20:22","slug":"fresno-man-sentenced-to-four-years-for-stealing-pokemon-cards-in-visalia-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/202594\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Man Sentenced to Four Years for Stealing Pok\u00e9mon Cards in Visalia Robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Fresno man has been sentenced to four years in state prison after stealing $1,000 worth of Pok\u00e9mon cards from a Visalia gas station and threatening witnesses during the incident.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday in Department 4 of the Tulare County Superior Court, Michael Ryan Baker, 31, was sentenced to four years in state prison for robbery.<\/p>\n<p>Around 9:30 a.m. on April 25, 2025, officers with the Visalia Police Department responded to a gas station on Dinuba Boulevard following reports of a theft. Police learned Baker had stolen $1,000 worth of Pok\u00e9mon cards.<\/p>\n<p><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/gvwire.com\/contact\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"GVWire-Ad-Get-our-mobile-app-1280\u00d790-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GVWire-Ad-Get-our-mobile-app-1280x90-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"   width=\"1280\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When confronted, witnesses said Baker lifted his shirt in a threatening manner as if he had a weapon in his waistband. After a brief chase out of the store, employees saw that Baker had parked his car directly behind the store with the trunk open.<\/p>\n<p>Baker fled the scene but was identified through video surveillance and taken into custody two days later.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 6, 2025, Baker pleaded no contest to felony second-degree robbery with a special allegation that he possessed a prior serious felony conviction for robbery in Fresno County in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Connect with\u00a0\u00a0on social media. Got a tip? Send an\u00a0.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fresno man has been sentenced to four years in state prison after stealing $1,000 worth of Pok\u00e9mon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-202594","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\/202594","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=202594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}