{"id":47125,"date":"2025-11-10T22:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T22:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/47125\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T22:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T22:08:13","slug":"teen-arrested-for-pointing-a-laser-at-a-fresno-police-helicopter-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/47125\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen arrested for pointing a laser at a Fresno Police helicopter, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kiana Raymondo Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/17934364_100325-kfsn-Kiana-Raymondo-bio-img.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Monday, November 10, 2025 7:54PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"ABC30 Central CA | Action News\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">SOUTHWEST FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A teen has been arrested after pointing a laser at a Fresno Police Department helicopter in Southwest Fresno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">On November 6, around 6:30 p.m., Fresno PD Air Support was assisting officers at a traffic stop near Fruit Ave. and Cesar Chavez Blvd. when they saw a red laser beam following the helicopter and illuminating the cockpit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The crew on board found the location of the source, officers responded to the area and arrested a 16-year-old who was then booked at the Fresno County Juvenile Justice Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Fresno PD would like to remind everyone that shining a laser at an aircraft violates federal and state law. It also creates a serious safety hazard that can potentially harm the lives on the aircraft as well as those on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, November 10, 2025 7:54PM SOUTHWEST FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A teen has been arrested after pointing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[30837,30833,30834,112,30836,114,113,1057,21356,30832,30835,30831,22669,30830,294],"class_list":["post-47125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-30837","tag-cesar-chavez-boulevard","tag-cockpit-laser","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-county-juvenile-justice-center","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-police-department","tag-fruit-avenue","tag-helicopter-incident","tag-juvenile-arrest","tag-laser-pointer","tag-southwest-fresno","tag-teen-arrested","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47125","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=47125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}