{"id":202897,"date":"2026-03-03T22:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T22:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/202897\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T22:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T22:58:08","slug":"california-man-sentenced-after-stealing-1000-worth-of-pokemon-cards-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/202897\/","title":{"rendered":"California man sentenced after stealing $1,000 worth of Pok\u00e9mon cards | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/post\/fresno-man-sentenced-stealing-1000-worth-pokmon-cards\/18671570\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here for updates on this story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0FRESNO, Calif. (<a href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/post\/fresno-man-sentenced-stealing-1000-worth-pokmon-cards\/18671570\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KFSN<\/a>) &#8212; A Fresno man has been sentenced for stealing $1,000 worth of Pok\u00e9mon cards.<\/p>\n<p>31-year-old Michael Ryan Baker was given four years in prison in a Tulare County courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>Visalia Police responded to a gas station in April of last year for a theft.<\/p>\n<p>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>He was arrested two days later.<\/p>\n<p>Baker also had a 2016 robbery conviction in Fresno County.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bCOPYRIGHT 2026 BY CHANNEL 3000. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Click here for updates on this story \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A Fresno man has been sentenced for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,723,6528,100,6529],"class_list":{"0":"post-202897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-national-and-world-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-shareable-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202897","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=202897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}