{"id":288423,"date":"2026-04-27T18:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/288423\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T18:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:17:07","slug":"bakersfield-police-investigate-bat-assault-on-niles-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/288423\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield Police investigate bat assault on Niles Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Bakersfield police are investigating a reported bat assault that happened on Niles Street Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Bakersfield Police Department said on April 26, 2026, at around 10:19 a.m., there was a call for service made in the 1600 block of Niles Street.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the reporting person stated there was an assault with a bat.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, the reported victim had already been self-transported to Kern Medical.<\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield police said they are actively investigating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Bakersfield police are investigating a reported bat assault that happened on Niles Street Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-288423","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\/288423","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=288423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}