{"id":259169,"date":"2026-04-09T10:56:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/259169\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T10:56:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:56:33","slug":"deputies-snap-up-1-million-in-legos-after-mojave-truck-heist-goes-brickside-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/259169\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputies snap up $1 million in Legos after Mojave truck heist goes brickside up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Kern County sheriff&#8217;s deputies made a million-dollar recovery when they seized a large amount of Lego sets in a botched truck heist in Mojave on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>On  April 8, 2026, deputies from the Mojave Substation responded to the 400 block of Silver Queen Road in Mojave for a report of suspicious vehicles in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, deputies saw two box trucks fleeing the area. Deputies pulled over the trucks and arrested three suspects.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects were arrested and identified as:<\/p>\n<p>Jose Lopez, 37, of San BernardinoRuben Lopez Flores, 25, of Los AngelesFreddy Hernandez Polinar, 35, of Chino<\/p>\n<p>The box trucks were searched, and a large amount of Lego products were found. Two freight trailers were also found and searched, containing in total around $1,000,000 worth of Lego products, said officials.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo: Kern County Sheriff's Office{p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/d2ae56b0-ba73-4d3b-9a86-540e7fb3df10-L3.jpg\"\/>Photo: Kern County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo: Kern County Sheriff's Office{p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/40935dab-4643-4534-8da2-6c7ab95cbb3a-L4.jpg\"\/>Photo: Kern County Sheriff&#8217;s OfficeComment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n<p>KCSO learned that the trailers were allegedly stolen while in transit from Fort Worth, Texas, to Moreno Valley, Calif. The trailers and Lego products were seized.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez, Flores, and Polinar are charged with possession of a stolen vehicle, cargo theft, and conspiracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Kern County sheriff&#8217;s deputies made a million-dollar recovery when they seized a large amount of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-259169","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\/259169","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=259169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}