{"id":185858,"date":"2026-02-20T08:58:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/185858\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T08:58:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:58:34","slug":"man-sentenced-to-prison-for-threatening-kern-county-supervisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/185858\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced to prison for threatening Kern County supervisor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 A 62-year-old man was sentenced to 32 months in state prison Wednesday after pleading no contest to making criminal threats against Kern County Supervisor Jeff Flores, according to the District Attorney&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Parish Buzzard admitted in January to a prior strike conviction out of Fresno County for criminal threats, making him eligible for a stronger sentence under California&#8217;s three-strikes law.<\/p>\n<p>Buzzard allegedly sent more than 70 emails to Flores that included threats saying he would &#8220;bash&#8221; his &#8220;brains in&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;m going to open fire on your hospital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The emails contained racial slurs and multiple photos of various weapons, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>Buzzard was taken into custody in March of last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 A 62-year-old man was sentenced to 32 months in state prison Wednesday after pleading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,155,153,152,14802,87581,735,162,87582,37413,7826],"class_list":{"0":"post-185858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-downtown","10":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","11":"tag-bakersfield-news","12":"tag-criminal-threats","13":"tag-jeff-flores","14":"tag-kern-county","15":"tag-kern-county-news","16":"tag-parish-buzzard","17":"tag-prison-sentence","18":"tag-supervisor"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185858","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=185858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}