{"id":452481,"date":"2026-09-03T19:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T19:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452481\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T19:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T19:50:09","slug":"hatchet-wielding-man-wanted-after-armed-robbery-at-fresno-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452481\/","title":{"rendered":"Hatchet-wielding man wanted after armed robbery at Fresno store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A man is wanted after merchandise was taken from a business in Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>The Fresno Police Department says the man entered a store near Kings Canyon Road and Clovis Avenue around 6:05 p.m. on August 27.<\/p>\n<p>An employee spotted the suspect tampering with a locking cord near a rear exit. <\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/police-need-help-identifying-2-suspects-in-shoplifting-case-in-madera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Police need help identifying 2 suspects in shoplifting case in Madera<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When another employee confronted him, the suspect was holding a hatchet belonging to the store and warned the employee to stay back.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say the suspect then shoved the employee and fled with the hatchet and a bag filled with merchandise.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Fresno Police Detective A. Avelar at 559-621-6328 or Crime Stoppers at 559-498-STOP (7867).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A man is wanted after merchandise was taken from a business in Fresno. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-452481","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\/452481","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=452481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}