{"id":289162,"date":"2026-04-28T03:46:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/289162\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T03:46:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:46:37","slug":"bakersfield-police-mark-5-years-since-k9-officer-jango-was-killed-in-the-line-of-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/289162\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield police mark 5 years since K9 Officer Jango was killed in the line of duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Bakersfield police are marking five years since the death of K-9 Jango, the first Bakersfield Police Department police dog to die in the line of duty.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX photo{p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/e97ed720-1b24-408d-82bd-83ca7026144d-large16x9_MILLS_JANGOSTATUE_0002_frame_0.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jango was <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/police-investigating-officer-involved-shooting-in-southeast-bakersfield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">shot and killed in April 2021<\/a> while helping officers catch a car thief in southeast Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police are investigating an officer-involved shooting on in southeast Bakersfield on Tuesday, April 27, 2021. (KBAK\/KBFX)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a0ddf1f1-a9f8-49f4-85ab-f01c6fb22cef-large16x9_MicrosoftTeamsimage36.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating an officer-involved shooting on in southeast Bakersfield on Tuesday, April 27, 2021. (KBAK\/KBFX)<\/p>\n<p>Police K-9 Jango was a Belgian Malinois and was born in the Netherlands on November 15, 2015. He was united with his human partner and best friend, Officer Brock Mueller, in March 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJango helped me become a better officer, husband, friend, and father,&#8221; stated Officer Mueller.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Jango\u2019s end of watch was April 27, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Bakersfield police are marking five years since the death of K-9 Jango, the first Bakersfield&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-289162","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\/289162","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=289162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}