{"id":113042,"date":"2025-12-30T02:06:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T02:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/113042\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T02:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T02:06:15","slug":"k-9-yacco-joins-ridgecrest-police-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/113042\/","title":{"rendered":"K-9 Yacco joins Ridgecrest Police Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The newest member of the Ridgecrest Police Department\u2019s squad showed up for his first day on Christmas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A German Shepherd named Yacco, who\u2019s a little over 2-years-old, was announced on Dec. 25 as the newest member of the Ridgecrest Police Department.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"858\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/50aac5625a48fb1e36d0ef10806b0f49.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Yacco and his handler, Officer Smith, are ready to sniff out whatever trouble tries to hide from them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The department ensures Yacco responds quickly to commands and is always on paw patrol.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The newest member of the Ridgecrest Police Department\u2019s squad showed up for his first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,60718,60716,60715,60717],"class_list":["post-113042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-german-shepherd","tag-officer-smith","tag-ridgecrest-police-department","tag-yacco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113042","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=113042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}