{"id":407885,"date":"2026-07-22T12:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/407885\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T12:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:35:19","slug":"fresno-trucker-in-ice-custody-after-being-caught-with-nearly-3m-in-stolen-powder-cbs47-and-ksee24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/407885\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno trucker in ICE custody after being caught with nearly $3M in stolen powder | CBS47 and KSEE24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOWANDA TOWNSHIP, PA (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourcentralvalley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">KSEE\/KPGE<\/a>) \u2013 A Fresno trucker is in ICE custody after being caught in Pennsylvania with nearly $3 million in stolen powder.<\/p>\n<p>Officers identified the suspect as 31-year-old Deepak Kumar.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image_258fb5-edited.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3084154\" style=\"width:768px;height:auto\"  \/>Deepak Kumar<\/p>\n<p>According to the arrest record, Kumar was caught hauling 10 pallets of stolen Tungsten Oxide Powder. <\/p>\n<p>It was worth $2,857,500.<\/p>\n<p>The powder, which is used in armor-piercing rounds, ceramics, lasers, optical products, and high-tech windows, belonged to Mitsubishi Materials Corporation and was slated for a June 24 pickup.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourcentralvalley.com\/news\/local-news\/hit-and-run-suspect-who-injured-4-year-old-detained-by-ice-outside-fresno-courthouse\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\tHit-and-run suspect who injured 4-year-old detained by ICE outside Fresno courthouse\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pickup was delayed a day, and everything seemed to be going smoothly, until Friday, June 26, when an employee said they could no longer get a hold of the driver.<\/p>\n<p>The truck was spotted by a Flock camera on June 27. Inside, officers found Kumar, who they say provided three forms of identification: an invalid work visa, a fraudulent New York State License, and a valid California driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested for theft and later transferred to McFarland, California, where he remains in ICE custody.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tSuggest a Correction<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClose Modal<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tSuggest a Correction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOWANDA TOWNSHIP, PA (KSEE\/KPGE) \u2013 A Fresno trucker is in ICE custody after being caught in Pennsylvania with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-407885","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\/407885","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=407885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}