{"id":322131,"date":"2026-05-19T01:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T01:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/322131\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T01:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T01:59:07","slug":"man-arrested-for-stealing-high-value-lego-sets-from-fresno-clovis-target-stores-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/322131\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for stealing high-value Lego sets from Fresno, Clovis Target stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fresno police have arrested a 40-year-old man for allegedly stealing hundreds of high-value Lego sets from Target stores across Fresno and Clovis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators served a search warrant at the man&#8217;s home, where they recovered more than 800 collectible toys valued at more than $5,000, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers said the suspect used a self-checkout scheme to carry out the thefts. He would allegedly take a large Lego set along with a smaller, lower-cost toy, then scan only the cheaper item before leaving the store with both.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man has not been identified. Police said he faces charges of grand theft and possession of stolen property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The case remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresno police have arrested a 40-year-old man for allegedly stealing hundreds of high-value Lego sets from Target stores&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[134203,112,114,113,3695,114152,9981,76204],"class_list":["post-322131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-collectible-toys","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-police","tag-lego-sets","tag-search-warrant","tag-target-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322131","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=322131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}