BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Bakersfield police arrested a 29-year-old man on multiple charges Tuesday, related to recent thefts and vandalism that affected downtown businesses and local department stores.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, April 7, 2026, Samuel Smith was arrested following an investigation that began the day before. At around 1:39 a.m., Monday, officers were called to the 800 block of 18th Street for a report of an in-progress theft reported by private security.<\/p>\n
The suspect, later identified as Samuel Smith, fled before the officers arrived and was not found. BPD obtained video surveillance, and a BPD K9 officer later saw Smith while patrolling and detained him, said police.<\/p>\n
Smith was booked into the Lerdo Detention Facility on multiple charges, including grand theft of property, burglary, shoplifting, and vandalism. <\/p>\n
Impact Unit personnel and BPD detectives identified Smith in connection with alleged past burglaries, including two break-ins in the downtown area at the House of Talula, the Native Fox Collective, and the Shell gas station located at 2317 L Street.<\/p>\n
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Smith was also found to be allegedly connected to thefts at Kohl\u2019s, located at 9400 Rosedale Highway and a construction site on Ming Avenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Bakersfield police arrested a 29-year-old man on multiple charges Tuesday, related to recent thefts and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-261380","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\/261380","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=261380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}