{"id":487900,"date":"2026-10-07T09:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T09:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/487900\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T09:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T09:28:08","slug":"expired-tag-stop-leads-to-gun-discovery-and-2-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/487900\/","title":{"rendered":"Expired tag stop leads to gun discovery and 2 arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Two people were arrested after a traffic stop revealed a loaded gun in the car on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Fresno Police Officers conducted a traffic stop in the area of Belmont and Van Ness Avenue after noticing a car had expired tags.<\/p>\n<p>Officers contacted the driver, identified as 49-year-old Robert Eldridge.<\/p>\n<p>They said that Eldridge was driving on a suspended license and had an active felony warrant.<\/p>\n<p>A test also revealed he was driving under the influence.<\/p>\n<p>A search of the car also revealed an AR rifle with no serial number, an attachable silencer and scope, a .45-caliber handgun, and a .25-caliber compact handgun.<\/p>\n<p>The passenger was identified as 41-year-old Alfonso Ramos, who had prior felony convictions.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED]  <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/police-identify-minors-fighting-in-surveillance-video-arrest-teen-with-illegal-un-serialized-firearm-hanford-kings-county-juvenile-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Police identify minors fighting in surveillance video, arrest teen with illegal firearm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eldridge was arrested and booked on DUI and current warrant charges.<\/p>\n<p>Ramos was arrested for gun-related charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Two people were arrested after a traffic stop revealed a loaded gun in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-487900","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\/487900","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=487900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}