{"id":261773,"date":"2026-04-10T22:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/261773\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T22:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:39:07","slug":"tulare-county-sheriff-warns-of-fake-gofundme-pages-claiming-to-aid-fallen-deputys-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/261773\/","title":{"rendered":"Tulare County sheriff warns of fake GoFundMe pages claiming to aid fallen deputy\u2019s family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux is warning the public about fake GoFundMe pages circulating online that claim to have been created on behalf of <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/deputy-killed-suspect-dead-after-porterville-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fallen deputy Randy Hoppert\u2019s<\/a> family.<\/p>\n<p>Boudreaux said the family has not authorized any GoFundMe fundraisers and is not benefiting from donations sent through those pages.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo: Tulare County Sheriff's Office (swipesimple.com){p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/536ccbf0-6ad8-45af-8033-9a0dabe8fff6-TCF.jpg\"\/>Photo: Tulare County Sheriff&#8217;s Office (swipesimple.com)Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>For people who want to donate, the <a href=\"https:\/\/swipesimple.com\/links\/lnk_225f12dfc5dc45f33449507b9686c7ba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tulare County Deputy Sheriffs\u2019 Association has created a page where money can be sent<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux is warning the public about fake GoFundMe pages circulating online&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-261773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261773","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=261773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}