{"id":122569,"date":"2026-01-06T20:20:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/122569\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T20:20:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:20:56","slug":"three-men-sentenced-for-armed-robbery-at-bakersfield-dispensary-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/122569\/","title":{"rendered":"Three men sentenced for armed robbery at Bakersfield dispensary in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Three men have been sentenced after being convicted of multiple felony charges, including robbery and intimidating a witness, following an <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/3-men-convicted-in-armed-robbery-of-bakersfield-marijuana-dispensary-da-sentencing-court-crime-prosecutors-kern-county-district-attorney-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">armed robbery at a Bakersfield marijuana dispensary in 2023.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Miguel Arredondo, 34, Hector Reynaga, 25, and Martin Zendejas, 29, were found guilty by a Kern County jury on Nov. 3, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO:<a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/3-men-convicted-in-armed-robbery-of-bakersfield-marijuana-dispensary-da-sentencing-court-crime-prosecutors-kern-county-district-attorney-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> 3 men convicted in armed robbery of Bakersfield marijuana dispensary: DA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arredondo was sentenced to 34 years and four months in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Reynaga was sentenced to 17 years and eight months in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Zendejas was sentenced to 32 years and four months in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The case revealed that on Sept. 22, 2023, the trio forced their way into the dispensary, brandishing guns and demanding marijuana products and cash from employees.<\/p>\n<p>The men also forced a female employee to make a fake emergency call to distract law enforcement, a tactic that failed as Bakersfield police quickly responded to the scene, said the DA. Officers found four guns hidden in the ceiling, including a stolen weapon from the security guard. The defendants were arrested after officers secured the release of all victims.<\/p>\n<p>The jury confirmed special allegations that the defendants used firearms during the crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Three men have been sentenced after being convicted of multiple felony charges, including robbery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-122569","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\/122569","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=122569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}