{"id":108290,"date":"2025-12-25T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/108290\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T00:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T00:00:07","slug":"bpd-arrest-14-in-retail-theft-operation-at-valley-plaza-mall-over-3100-in-items-seized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/108290\/","title":{"rendered":"BPD arrest 14 in retail theft operation at Valley Plaza Mall, over $3,100 in items seized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Bakersfield police arrested 14 people on Tuesday, Dec. 23, in an Organized Retail Theft Unit operation at the Valley Plaza Mall.<\/p>\n<p>Five of the suspects met the requirements for felony charges under <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/search?find=Prop+36+kern+county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Proposition 36<\/a>. Several of the suspects contacted during the operation were found to have an alleged warrant for their arrest, said BPD.<\/p>\n<p>Officers seized around 100 alleged stolen items, totaling more than $3,100. The items were returned to their businesses, such as  Old Navy, Macy\u2019s, JCPenney, Target, Abercrombie &amp; Fitch, Hollister, and Dollar Tree, which participated in the operation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Target at the Valley Plaza Mall\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/dabb2ac5-2797-4a50-8fdd-c19b42aa3c0f-Image2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Target at the Valley Plaza Mall<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/kern-county-district-attorneys-office-reviews-impact-of-prop-36-after-one-year-in-effect-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kern County District Attorney&#8217;s Office reviews impact of Prop 36 after one year in effect<\/a><br \/>During the operation, several vehicles linked to the suspects were impounded, including one from which a driver allegedly tried to evade officers before being stopped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Bakersfield police arrested 14 people on Tuesday, Dec. 23, in an Organized Retail Theft Unit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-108290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108290","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=108290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}