{"id":259981,"date":"2026-04-09T21:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/259981\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T21:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:31:07","slug":"u-haul-still-missing-weeks-after-online-rental-tied-to-alleged-identity-theft-bpd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/259981\/","title":{"rendered":"U-Haul still missing weeks after online rental tied to alleged identity theft: BPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Bakersfield Police is asking for help in identifying a suspect connected to a U-Haul and identity theft from late March.<\/p>\n<p>The incident dates back to March 23, 2026, when the suspect rented a U-Haul truck through an online application, and in the rental process, the suspect provided a copy of a California Driver\u2019s License and a still photograph of herself.<\/p>\n<p>The U-Haul truck has not yet been returned as of April 9, 2026. An investigation revealed that the suspect allegedly used another person&#8217;s identity to rent the vehicle.<\/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\/2cccc2d5-0df1-4ab3-83a4-6606bc7c60bf-UHS.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Bakersfield Police Dept.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is described as a woman, 20-25 years old, with brown hair, who was last seen wearing a grey T-shirt.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the suspect is asked to call detective B. Looney at (661) 326-3846 or the Bakersfield Police Department at (661) 327-7111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Bakersfield Police is asking for help in identifying a suspect connected to a U-Haul and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-259981","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\/259981","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=259981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}