{"id":3817,"date":"2019-01-05T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=3817"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:30:05","slug":"man-caught-stealing-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/man-caught-stealing-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Man caught stealing gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3817\" class=\"elementor elementor-3817\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-53cc1680 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"53cc1680\" 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-4af515d7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4af515d7\" 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>A Madera County reserve sheriff\u2019s deputy caught a gasoline thief more or less in the act Dec. 30 when he responded to a report at about 11:15 p.m. of such a theft being under way.<\/p><p>Reserve Deputy Lester Esparza arrived at a business address in the 10,000 block of Business State Route 41, where he saw a man standing next to a white pickup parked directly over underground fuel tanks on the property.<\/p><p>The covers of the fuel tanks had been removed, according to Sheriff\u2019s Public Information Officer Kayla Serratto.<\/p><p>The suspect, Amarjit Singh, 33, of Fresno, admitted he had started siphoning fuel, Serratto said, but had been able to swipe only a few gallons before being stopped by Deputy Esparza.<\/p><p>The siphoning apparatus included an electric pump installed in space made available by removal of a passenger seat, a black drop-down hose long enough to reach the fuel in the tank and a hose coupler. In the bed of the pickup were two tanks able to hold about 500 gallons of fuel.<\/p><p>Singh was taken to the Madera County Department of Correction where he was booked on charges of petty theft.<\/p><p>The Madera County Sheriff\u2019s Office encourages citizens to report suspicious activity by calling the Communications Center at 675-7770.<\/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>A Madera County reserve sheriff\u2019s deputy caught a gasoline thief more or less in the act Dec. 30 when he responded to a report at about 11:15 p.m. of such a theft being under way. Reserve Deputy Lester Esparza arrived at a business address in the 10,000 block of Business State Route 41, where he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-3817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-law"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}