{"id":417661,"date":"2026-07-30T06:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T06:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/417661\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T06:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T06:09:10","slug":"naked-man-found-hiding-in-fresno-plasma-center-ceiling-resists-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/417661\/","title":{"rendered":"Naked man found hiding in Fresno plasma center ceiling resists arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man \u2014 who wasn\u2019t wearing a stitch of clothing<\/a> \u2014 was arrested in Fresno after refusing to come out of the ceiling of a plasma donation center building where he was hiding.<\/p>\n

Fresno police said officers were called Wednesday to the Grifols Biomat USA Plasma Center at Blackstone and Dakota after reports that someone was hiding inside the building\u2019s walls or ceiling.<\/p>\n

The unsettling discovery came when a patient donating plasma looked up and saw a pair of eyes staring back from the ceiling. The donor alerted staff, who immediately called 911.<\/p>\n

Responding officers found a 30-year-old man wedged inside the ceiling. Police said he refused to come out and resisted officers before he was eventually taken into custody.<\/p>\n

Police said they were called out on Wednesday to Grifols Biomat USA Plasma Center\u00a0on Blackstone and Dakota for reports there was a person hiding inside the walls or the ceiling of the building. Fox25 Photojournalist Jordan Callison<\/p>\n

Despite repeated attempts by the officers to coax the man out of his hiding place, he refused and started kicking objects at them from the ceiling, per PD.<\/p>\n

In his attempt to escape, police said the man threw what appeared to be a pipe at one of the cops, who was nearly struck in the head by the object.<\/p>\n

A naked man was arrested in Fresno after a patient donating plasma looked up and saw him peering at them from inside the ceiling of the building. Fox25 Photojournalist Jordan Callison<\/p>\n

\u201cThe male kept moving around within the ceiling\/walls, and broke a pipe that flooded the building,\u201d PD said. <\/p>\n

When he finally emerged from his hiding location, police said he had no clothes on.<\/p>\n

Officers said they deployed pepper balls on the man who they said was refusing to comply with the commands, per PD.<\/p>\n

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The naked man<\/a> was finally taken into custody and then to a local hospital.<\/p>\n

Other businesses in the strip mall were evacuated due to the pepper balls.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the incident, pepper spray migrated through a multi-tenant commercial building, prompting the evacuation of 41 people from several businesses, including Grifols Plasma Center, Joyride Insurance Company, Leslie\u2019s Pool Supplies, Planet Fitness, and a nearby hair salon,\u201d the Fresno Fire Department<\/a> said.<\/p>\n

The naked man was finally taken into custody and then to a local hospital.<\/p>\n

The man is facing numerous charges stemming from the incident including felony vandalism, resisting arrest and assault with a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n

It is unclear why he was inside the ceiling of the building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man \u2014 who wasn\u2019t wearing a stitch of clothing \u2014 was arrested in Fresno after refusing to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,723,41371,4182,266,236,3586],"class_list":["post-417661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-crime","tag-indecent-exposure","tag-metro","tag-northern-california","tag-police","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417661","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=417661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}