{"id":260016,"date":"2025-09-28T00:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T00:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/260016\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T00:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T00:30:11","slug":"24-stolen-guinea-pigs-recovered-in-phoenix-deputies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/260016\/","title":{"rendered":"24 stolen guinea pigs recovered in Phoenix: deputies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>PHOENIX<\/strong> &#8211; Two dozen guinea pigs were recovered from a Phoenix home operating as an animal rescue in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The Pima County Sheriff&#8217;s Department began investigating a reported theft involving 25 guinea pigs on Sept. 23, from a home in the 5800 block of West Oasis Road in Marana.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">A witness in Phoenix led deputies to the home that was connected to the suspects involved in the theft.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">On Sept. 26, Pima County deputies and Phoenix police recovered 24 guinea pigs, who were safely returned to the Marana-based rescue. However, one of the animals died before the rescue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">On the night of the theft, surveillance video showed two 14-year-old girls from the Phoenix area at the scene. Another suspect, 47-year-old Heather Jenson, who is the mother of one of the teen girls and known to the animal rescue, was also caught on camera.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Criminal charges are pending and could include burglary, possession of stolen property, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">This remains an active investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> This information was provided by the Pima County Sheriff&#8217;s Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/us\/az\/maricopa-county\/phoenix\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX &#8211; Two dozen guinea pigs were recovered from a Phoenix home operating as an animal rescue in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":203544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,6082,1588,50,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-260016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-maricopa-county","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115279103718895907","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}