{"id":423303,"date":"2026-08-04T04:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T04:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/423303\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T04:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T04:46:07","slug":"man-arrested-at-border-crossing-transferred-to-fresno-county-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/423303\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested at border crossing transferred to Fresno County Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The man connected to a fatal hit-and-run of an elderly couple was picked up from San Diego County jail and transferred to the  Fresno County jail.<\/p>\n<p>48-year-old Omar Chavez of Reedley was recently arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border crossing at the CBX bridge connecting the Tijuana Airport.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested in connection with a fatal hit-and-run that killed Luis Martinez Araujo and Maria Juarez Mendez.<\/p>\n<p>[MORE] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/police-arrest-reedley-hit-and-run-suspect-at-the-us-mexico-border\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Police arrest Reedley hit-and-run suspect at the U.S.-Mexico border<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chavez was picked up from San Diego County Jail and transferred to Fresno County Jail on charges related to the hit-and-run.<\/p>\n<p>His bail has been set at $45,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The man connected to a fatal hit-and-run of an elderly couple was picked up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-423303","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\/423303","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=423303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}