{"id":347146,"date":"2026-06-04T22:34:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T22:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/347146\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T22:34:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T22:34:25","slug":"woman-arrested-after-late-night-nectarine-heist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/347146\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested after late-night nectarine heist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A woman was arrested after an investigation near an orchard revealed stolen fruit and drug paraphernalia on Tuesday, deputies say. <\/p>\n<p>A Fresno County Deputy was on patrol in the area between Kingsburg and Parlier, noticed a car pulling out of a nectarine orchard near the intersection of Zediker and Rose avenues around 2 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The deputy stopped the car and contacted the driver, 40-year-old Zulema Garcia Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia Cruz was arrested for having outstanding warrants for drug possession and petty theft.<\/p>\n<p>During a further search of the orchard, the deputy found a pickup truck with nobody inside. <\/p>\n<p>The bed of the truck was full of nectarines that had been picked off nearby trees.<\/p>\n<p>The deputy also checked the trunk of Garcia Cruz\u2019s car and found a crate of nectarines. <\/p>\n<p>Depuites said she was also in possession of a meth pipe.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia Cruz was booked into the Fresno County Jail on her warrants and new charges related to grand theft of crops and possession of drug paraphernalia. <\/p>\n<p>Her bail was set at $65,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A woman was arrested after an investigation near an orchard revealed stolen fruit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-347146","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\/347146","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=347146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}