{"id":48327,"date":"2025-11-11T17:06:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T17:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/48327\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T17:06:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T17:06:28","slug":"teen-arrested-for-pointing-a-laser-at-a-fresno-police-helicopter-officials-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/48327\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen arrested for pointing a laser at a Fresno Police helicopter, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A teen has been arrested after allegedly pointing a laser at a Fresno Police Department helicopter in Southwest Fresno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teen has been arrested after allegedly pointing a laser at a Fresno Police Department helicopter in Southwest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[31404,112,114,113,31403,31401,1057,31402,22669],"class_list":["post-48327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-cesar-chavez-blvd","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-pd","tag-fresno-pd-air-support","tag-fresno-police-department","tag-laser-beam","tag-southwest-fresno"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48327","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=48327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}