{"id":288809,"date":"2026-04-27T23:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/288809\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T23:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:16:07","slug":"two-caught-in-the-act-stealing-mail-according-to-clovis-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/288809\/","title":{"rendered":"Two &#8216;caught in the act&#8217; stealing mail, according to Clovis police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLOVIS, Calif. (FOX26)  \u2014 A Clovis police officer on patrol early Sunday morning spotted two people allegedly stealing mail from a community mailbox and arrested them after they tried to drive away.<\/p>\n<p>The officers found a car parked next to a community box in a neighborhood near Gettysburg and Temperance around 3:20 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>They say the two suspects were caught in the act of stealing mail.<\/p>\n<p>They were taken into custody after attempting to escape.<\/p>\n<p>29-year-old Ger Xiong and 47-year-old Karen Palmaderios, both of Fresno, were booked into the Fresno County Jail on multiple charges, including mail theft, evading officers, conspiracy, and possession of burglary tools. <\/p>\n<p>The vehicle was towed, and officers recovered several pieces of stolen mail.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Recovered Stolen Mail (Photo: CPD)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/547a888e-135a-4118-b801-a8b3764ac5ba-RecoveredStolenMail042626.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Recovered Stolen Mail (Photo: CPD)<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/police-looking-for-3-who-robbed-clovis-post-office-usps-postal-inspectors-office-valley-crime-stoppers-kia-sedan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Police looking for 3 who robbed Clovis Post Office<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police said Xiong has prior charges for mail theft. Palmaderios was also arrested on two unrelated warrants.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Detectives are continuing to follow up on the case. Police urged residents to call 911 to report a crime in progress or suspicious activity. Anyone who has been the victim of a crime in Clovis can report it by calling the non-emergency line at (559) 324-2800.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLOVIS, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A Clovis police officer on patrol early Sunday morning spotted two people allegedly stealing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-288809","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\/288809","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=288809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}