BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A man on probation was arrested after officers allegedly found drugs, an unregistered gun, and ammunition during a search in central Bakersfield.<\/p>\n
The Kern County Probation Department said on October 21, 2025, officers with the department\u2019s Adult Probation Services Division conducted a home call in the 2000 block of First Street in Bakersfield.<\/p>\n
Officers talked to Briant Deneal Williams, who is on felony probation.<\/p>\n
During the search, officers allegedly found suspected methamphetamine inside Williams\u2019 pocket, and a loaded, unregistered .22 caliber Ruger MKI semi-automatic pistol concealed inside of Williams\u2019 boot, according to the probation department.<\/p>\n
The department said a search of his vehicle found an additional round of ammunition.<\/p>\n
Williams was arrested for possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, possession of a concealed firearm, possession of ammunition, possession of a controlled substance while armed, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drugs with two prior qualifying convictions under Proposition 36 and a violation of probation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A man on probation was arrested after officers allegedly found drugs, an unregistered gun,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[17371,237,151,153,152,2781,17370,17368,5121,17369],"class_list":["post-21364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-ammunition","tag-arrest","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-drugs","tag-methamphetamine","tag-probation","tag-proposition-36","tag-unregistered-gun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21364","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=21364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}