{"id":256642,"date":"2026-04-08T00:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256642\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T00:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:32:08","slug":"bpd-seek-help-identifying-suspect-in-valley-plaza-mall-grand-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256642\/","title":{"rendered":"BPD seek help identifying suspect in Valley Plaza Mall grand theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Bakersfield police are asking for the public\u2019s help identifying a man suspected of stealing a bag containing a wallet, jewelry and more than $950 in cash at the Valley Plaza Mall.<\/p>\n<p>The Bakersfield Police Department said the grand theft happened at about 9 p.m. Friday, March 20, 2026, at the mall at 2701 Ming Ave. Police said the victim briefly left a personal bag under a chair near the Zales store, and the bag was taken.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is described as about 5&#8217;8&#8243; to 5&#8217;10&#8221; with a medium build and a mustache. Police said he was wearing a tan or white baseball-style cap, a brown shirt, blue jeans, and dark-colored boots, and carrying a black backpack.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo: Bakersfield Police Dept.\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/104569d0-ffa3-4f70-898e-c091d5a8cf6c-VALLEYPLAZASUSPECT.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Bakersfield Police Dept.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact detective A. Shive at (661) 326-3844 or the Bakersfield Police Department at (661) 327-7111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Bakersfield police are asking for the public\u2019s help identifying a man suspected of stealing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-256642","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\/256642","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=256642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}