{"id":208191,"date":"2026-03-07T00:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T00:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/208191\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T00:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T00:45:15","slug":"3-arrests-made-in-west-bakersfield-shoulder-tap-operation-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/208191\/","title":{"rendered":"3 arrests made in west Bakersfield \u2018Shoulder Tap\u2019 operation: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 Three people were arrested after Bakersfield police caught them buying alcohol for minors who were working with law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cShoulder Tap\u201d operations conducted by the Bakersfield Police Department and California Department of\u00a0Alcoholic Beverage Control resulted in three people being arrested in west Bakersfield on Feb. 18 and March 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">All three suspects bought alcohol for minors who informed them of their age and were later released at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Buying alcohol for a minor can cost a minimum $1,000 fine and 24 hours of community service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A \u201cShoulder Tap\u201d operation is when a minor informs people walking into the store they are underage, while asking them to purchase alcohol for them. The minors working with law enforcement are under close supervision by police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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 Three people were arrested after Bakersfield police caught them buying alcohol for minors who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,324,95966,95965,734,95967],"class_list":["post-208191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bakersfield-police-department","tag-buying-alcohol-for-minors","tag-california-department-of-alcoholic-beverage-control","tag-law-enforcement","tag-shoulder-tap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208191","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=208191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}