{"id":256966,"date":"2026-04-08T04:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256966\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T04:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:32:11","slug":"man-arrested-for-demanding-free-gas-at-orange-county-gas-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256966\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Arrested For Demanding Free Gas At Orange County Gas Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IRVINE, CA \u2014 A man was arrested in Orange County after police say he demanded free gas at an Irvine station. <\/p>\n<p>The Irvine Police Department released body camera footage of their encounter with the man last week. <\/p>\n<p>Police said the man walked into an unnamed gas station, demanded $55 in gas and refused to pay. <\/p>\n<p>According to police, the man decided to camp out at the station and wait for free gas that never arrived. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I sincerely believe that money as a unit of payment is not real,&#8221; the man told officers as he sat inside of his car. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our officers deployed their expert patience and negotiation skills, trying to get the man to leave while navigating a debate over whether money is real,&#8221; the department wrote in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reality is that once we exhaust all our options, disobeying a lawful order will result in very real consequences,&#8221; the department said. <\/p>\n<p>No further information was immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IRVINE, CA \u2014 A man was arrested in Orange County after police say he demanded free gas at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-256966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256966","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=256966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}