BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A Lancaster man was arrested and charged in connection with a series of restaurant burglaries in Tehachapi that caused thousands in damages back in February 2026.<\/p>\n
The Tehachapi Police Department said on the night of February 20th, 2026, five restaurants in the city were burglarized by three suspects.<\/p>\n
During the burglaries, $1,300 in cash was stolen, and thousands of dollars in damage was done, according to Tehachapi PD.<\/p>\n
Police said the same suspect committed commercial burglaries to multiple businesses in the unincorporated county area of Tehachapi, Golden Hills.<\/p>\n
Tehachapi police said that with department resources, detectives were able to identify a vehicle and one of the suspects involved. Based on this information, detectives authored a warrant for 28-year-old Earl Gregory Cox, a resident of Lancaster.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, March 4th, 2026, Tehachapi Police Department’s detectives were notified by San Bernardino County Sheriff\u2019s detectives that they had apprehended Cox.<\/p>\n
Cox was apprehended in relation to the burglaries in Tehachapi as well as multiple locations in San Bernardino and Los Angeles Counties, according to police. Cox was booked into custody at the San Bernardino County Jail and charged with multiple counts of commercial burglary and conspiracy.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, April 9th, 2026, the Kern County District Attorney\u2019s Office filed charges in three of our investigations, charging Cox with burglary, conspiracy, and vandalism. His bail is currently set at $300,000.<\/p>\n
Anyone with more information regarding this case is asked to call Detective Orozco or Sgt. Mike Adams at the Tehachapi Police Department at (661) 822-2222.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A Lancaster man was arrested and charged in connection with a series of restaurant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-279383","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\/279383","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=279383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}