{"id":281234,"date":"2026-04-23T01:29:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/281234\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T01:29:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:29:27","slug":"children-found-safe-after-suspect-steals-vehicle-in-central-fresno-police-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/281234\/","title":{"rendered":"Children found safe after suspect steals vehicle in central Fresno, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two small children are safe and a man is in custody after a car was stolen in Central Fresno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It happened just after 11 a.m. in the area of Harrison and Cornell avenues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers say a woman was putting away groceries while her kids, a 1-year-old and a 3-year-old, were still in the car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">From inside the house, she suddenly heard the vehicle driving away and ran after it, screaming for help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That&#8217;s when other people in the area jumped into their cars and chased after the stolen car.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Detectives say the good Samaritans were able to block the car in at Harrison north of Shields and held the man down until officers arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Just about an hour ago, officers identified him as Nathaniel Benavidez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He&#8217;s now in custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Both children are safe and back with their mother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say the man was on probation and faces multiple charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two small children are safe and a man is in custody after a car was stolen in Central&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113,19274],"class_list":{"0":"post-281234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news","11":"tag-stolen-car"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281234","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=281234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}