{"id":211968,"date":"2026-03-09T19:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T19:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/211968\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T19:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T19:15:09","slug":"pismos-manager-in-ice-detention-released-and-back-with-his-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/211968\/","title":{"rendered":"Pismo’s Manager in ICE Detention Released and Back With His Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly nine months after being detained by immigration authorities, the Iranian-born manager of Pismo\u2019s Restaurant, Psalm Behpoor, is back with his family in Fresno.<\/p>\n

Last week, the government declined to appeal a bond hearing for Behpoor, meaning as he awaits his future hearing, he can be with his wife and son, attorney Steve Simonian told GV Wire.<\/p>\n

Behpoor was released on Friday on $20,000 bail. Calls to Behpoor by GV Wire were not immediately returned.<\/p>\n

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\nBehpoor Came to the US When He Was 3 Years Old<\/p>\n

In June 2025, ICE took Behpoor into custody, citing a burglary he committed in 2002 when he was teenager. A judge in 2024 reduced the conviction to a non-deportable, nonviolent felony. Behpoor came to the U.S. from Iran when he was 3 years old when his mother fled the Ayatollah\u2019s regime as a political prisoner.<\/p>\n

Later in his life, he started work at Pismo\u2019s Restaurant in Fresno, eventually becoming general manager.<\/p>\n

His story caught national news and brought out support from local and national politicians, including Rep. Jim Costa, D-Fresno, who visited the ICE detention facility in Kern County where Behpoor was held. Fresno City councilmembers Mike Karbassi and Annalisa Perea also wrote letters of support on behalf of Behpoor.<\/p>\n

In November 2025, to help Behpoor\u2019s case, Gov. Gavin Newsom gave him a \u201cfull and unconditional\u201d pardon<\/a> after Behpoor sent him a request for clemency.<\/p>\n

Behpoor now awaits his next hearing, Simonian said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly nine months after being detained by immigration authorities, the Iranian-born manager of Pismo\u2019s Restaurant, Psalm Behpoor, is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-211968","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\/211968","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=211968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}