{"id":424582,"date":"2026-08-05T15:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/424582\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T15:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:58:14","slug":"driver-arrested-after-800k-fentanyl-packages-found-during-traffic-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/424582\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver arrested after $800K fentanyl packages found during traffic stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresno County, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Eight packages of fentanyl worth about $800,000 were found during a traffic stop in Fresno County, ending in an arrest.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, CHP says an officer stopped a 2002 Ford F-150 for a vehicle code violation on I-5 in Fresno County.<\/p>\n<p>During the stop, the officer said they observed several indicators consistent with criminal activity.<\/p>\n<p>The driver consented to a search of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/traffic-stop-leads-to-arrest-after-9mm-loaded-handgun-found\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Traffic stop leads to arrest after loaded 9mm handgun found<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During that search, eight kilogram-sized packages were found concealed inside the truck. <\/p>\n<p>The driver was arrested, and the suspected narcotics were turned over to the Fresno High Impact Investigations Team for further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequent testing confirmed the packages contained fentanyl, with an estimated street value of approximately $800,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresno County, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Eight packages of fentanyl worth about $800,000 were found during a traffic stop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-424582","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\/424582","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=424582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}