BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A missing 9-year-old off-road rider in the Wagon Wheel area, east of Ridgecrest, was safely found after a search by multiple agencies and community members.<\/p>\n
The Ridgecrest Police Department said on Saturday, March 28, officers were notified of a missing 9-year-old off-road motorcycle rider in the Wagon Wheel area of San Bernardino County, just east of Ridgecrest.<\/p>\n
Police said officers with drones and off-road vehicles responded to assist the San Bernardino County Sheriff\u2019s Department, who was actively searching the area with their helicopter.<\/p>\n
According to police, during the search, officers saw several local off-road enthusiasts who self-deployed to help locate the missing child.<\/p>\n
In a social media post, it said, \u201cThis speaks volumes about the strength of our community.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police said the boy was found and was reunited with his parents.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis incident is a powerful reminder of the kind of community we live in\u2014one that comes together in times of need,\u201d said in the post. Ridgecrest police thanked those who helped with the search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A missing 9-year-old off-road rider in the Wagon Wheel area, east of Ridgecrest, was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-243594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243594","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=243594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}