{"id":149,"date":"2025-02-19T21:52:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T21:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=149"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:10:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:10:56","slug":"a-danger-filled-night-for-2-madera-cops-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/a-danger-filled-night-for-2-madera-cops-1\/","title":{"rendered":"A danger-filled night for 2 Madera cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"149\" class=\"elementor elementor-149\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6f7d890e e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6f7d890e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-78d192b9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"78d192b9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In 1947, Madera was pretty much a peaceful, little town of just more than 9,000 people. Most everything seemed to be running smoothly; the town had been fairly calm, and the news was routine.<\/p><p>There was, however, one fly in the buttermilk. A rash of nighttime burglaries had Madera police stumped. Stakeouts, increased patrols, citizen awareness programs \u2014 all were equally ineffective. No corrective measure seemed to work.<\/p><p>Police Chief Walter E. Thomas demanded diligence among the members of his department. These break-ins had to be stopped; the public and its property had to be protected. With this admonishment ringing in their ears, officers John Voith and Ernie Fernandez began their nightly patrol on March 6, 1947.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1947, Madera was pretty much a peaceful, little town of just more than 9,000 people. Most everything seemed to be running smoothly; the town had been fairly calm, and the news was routine. There was, however, one fly in the buttermilk. A rash of nighttime burglaries had Madera police stumped. Stakeouts, increased patrols, citizen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-law"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}