{"id":365214,"date":"2026-06-18T03:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/365214\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T03:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:55:10","slug":"police-evacuate-fresno-store-after-reports-of-armed-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/365214\/","title":{"rendered":"Police evacuate Fresno store after reports of armed man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2315.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Fresno police evacuated the Ace Hardware store near Belmont and Maple avenues Wednesday after reports of an armed man making threats. The suspect was taken into custody without incident, and the gun was a replica.\" alt=\"Fresno police evacuated the Ace Hardware store near Belmont and Maple avenues Wednesday after reports of an armed man making threats. The suspect was taken into custody without incident, and the gun was a replica.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Fresno police evacuated the Ace Hardware store near Belmont and Maple avenues Wednesday after reports of an armed man making threats. The suspect was taken into custody without incident, and the gun was a replica.<\/p>\n<p>            Nick Fenley<\/p>\n<p>A Fresno hardware store was evacuated following reports of an armed suspect making threats inside the business.<\/p>\n<p>The situation unfolded at the Ace Hardware store near Belmont and Maple avenues around 4 p.m. Wednesday, Fresno police Lt. Larry Bowlan said.<\/p>\n<p>Police received a report of an armed subject. Officers established a perimeter and evacuated the store, Bowlan said.<\/p>\n<p>When the suspect realized the store was empty, he exited the store and was taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>Bowlan said the suspect made threats to several employees, and the reported firearm he brandished turned out to be a replica handgun.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, a male in his late 20s, hasn\u2019t been identified and is in custody for multiple counts of brandishing, Bowlan said. Authorities are investigating whether to bring additional charges.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/profile\/307508201\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_4053.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Nick Fenley\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/profile\/307508201\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Fenley<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Fresno Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Nick Fenley is a reporter covering education, lawsuits, breaking news and more for The Fresno Bee. He\u2019s originally from the Imperial Valley and has been with The Bee since 2025.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresno police evacuated the Ace Hardware store near Belmont and Maple avenues Wednesday after reports of an armed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-365214","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\/365214","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=365214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}