{"id":125593,"date":"2026-01-08T20:26:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/125593\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T20:26:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:26:33","slug":"bakersfield-police-seek-publics-help-in-search-for-missing-25-year-old-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/125593\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield police seek public&#8217;s help in search for missing 25-year-old man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department is asking for the community\u2019s help in finding a missing 25-year-old man.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Leif Brooks was last seen on January 2, 2026, in Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks is considered at risk due to medical conditions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police said Leif Brooks was last seen on January 2, 2026, in Bakersfield. PHOTO: BPD\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/db984624-6e27-4642-9c6a-f6ec3032357f-Untitled20.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police said Leif Brooks was last seen on January 2, 2026, in Bakersfield. PHOTO: BPD<\/p>\n<p>Brooks is described as a White man, 5\u201911\u201d tall, 180 pounds, with short brown hair and brown eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding Brooks\u2019 whereabouts is asked to call the Bakersfield Police Department at (661) 327-7111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department is asking for the community\u2019s help in finding a missing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-125593","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\/125593","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=125593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}