{"id":279297,"date":"2026-04-21T23:06:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279297\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T23:06:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:06:29","slug":"bakersfield-man-arrested-in-indiana-after-police-seize-nearly-400-pounds-of-cocaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279297\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield man arrested in Indiana after police seize nearly 400 pounds of cocaine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 A Bakersfield man was arrested Tuesday in Indiana after police allegedly found nearly 400 pounds of suspected cocaine in his commercial tractor, according to the Indiana State Police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An Indiana State Police trooper conducted a traffic stop on a commercial motor vehicle speeding on I-70 near Cloverdale in Putnam County Tuesday morning, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The trooper found \u201cmultiple criminal indicators\u201d suggesting the driver \u2014 identified as Harmandeep Singh, 27, of Bakersfield \u2014 was operating below industry standards, according to Indiana State Police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The trooper reportedly got consent to search the tractor and trailer and found several duffle bags and cardboard boxes containing about 392 pounds of suspected cocaine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The estimated street value of the seized narcotics is about $9 million, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Singh was booked into the Putnam County Jail on suspicion of narcotics-related charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 A Bakersfield man was arrested Tuesday in Indiana after police allegedly found nearly 400&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[120387,151,153,152,120385,120386,9520,64118],"class_list":{"0":"post-279297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-400-pounds","9":"tag-bakersfield","10":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","11":"tag-bakersfield-news","12":"tag-commercial-motor-vehicle","13":"tag-harmandeep-singh","14":"tag-indiana","15":"tag-indiana-state-police"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279297","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=279297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}