{"id":459506,"date":"2026-09-10T15:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/459506\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T15:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:48:11","slug":"american-ambulance-employee-arrested-in-child-exploitation-investigation-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/459506\/","title":{"rendered":"American Ambulance employee arrested in child exploitation investigation, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789055291_798_origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, September 10, 2026 2:04PM<\/p>\n<p>Kerman Police have arrested 40-year-old Benjamin Wiele following an investigation into the online exploitation of children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Kerman Police have arrested 40-year-old Benjamin Wiele following an investigation into the online exploitation of children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Action News interviewed him earlier this year as an employee of American Ambulance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities arrested Wiele after police received a cyber-tip regarding suspected online child exploitation, which included allegations of sharing inappropriate images.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">After a search warrant was executed, detectives seized devices believed to contain evidence related to the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Wiele was booked into the Fresno County Jail.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, September 10, 2026 2:04PM Kerman Police have arrested 40-year-old Benjamin Wiele following an investigation into the online&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[181233,181232,181231,33661,112,114,113,348,294],"class_list":["post-459506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-181233","tag-american-ambulance","tag-benjamin-wiele","tag-child-exploitation","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-investigation","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459506","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=459506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}