{"id":327135,"date":"2026-05-22T02:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/327135\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T02:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:06:16","slug":"video-of-man-with-knife-at-fresno-city-attorney-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/327135\/","title":{"rendered":"Video of man with knife at Fresno City Attorney home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A security video at the home of Fresno City Attorney Andrew Janz shows a man armed with a knife at his front door.<\/p>\n<p>Fresno County Sheriff\u2019s Office <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article315832370.html\">deputies arrested Larry Torrez on May 17<\/a>, and he was charged with attempted first-degree burglary and trespassing. He pleaded not guilty at an arraignment on Wednesday in Fresno County Superior Court.<\/p>\n<p>The video, obtained by The Bee, shows a man ringing the doorbell, knife in hand. He then appears in the backyard, where he is eventually apprehended.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to thank law enforcement for responding quickly. Sheriff John Zanoni has been a great resource this last week and he\u2019s been very supportive, Chief Casto as well. So, just want to say thank you to law enforcement,\u201d Janz said in  comments from the dais at Thursday\u2019s Fresno City Council meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Fresno County Superior Court Geoffrey Wilson granted Torrez $30,000 bail. As of 3 p.m. Thursday, jail records showed Torrez was still in custody.<\/p>\n<p>                                          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Torrez knife Screenshot 2026-05-21 145708.png\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"804\" title=\"Torrez knife Screenshot 2026-05-21 145708.png\" alt=\"Security video shows a man holding a knife while ringing the doorbell of the home of Fresno City Attorney Andrew Janz. Larry Torrez was arrested following the May 17, 2026, incident in Fresno, California.\"\/>                                                                                    Security video shows a man holding a knife while ringing the doorbell of the home of Fresno City Attorney Andrew Janz. Larry Torrez was arrested following the May 17, 2026, incident in Fresno, California.                                                                                                                                                                        SPECIAL TO THE BEE                                                                                        <\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published May 21, 2026 at 3:25 PM.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fresno Bee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A security video at the home of Fresno City Attorney Andrew Janz shows a man armed with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-327135","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\/327135","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=327135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}