{"id":30059,"date":"2025-10-30T10:47:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T10:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/30059\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T10:47:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T10:47:41","slug":"jury-finds-kern-county-man-guilty-of-resisting-arrest-tampering-with-vehicle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/30059\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury finds Kern County man guilty of resisting arrest, tampering with vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A man faces over three years in prison after being convicted of punching and kicking a Bakersfield Police Department officer. It happened as the officer was responding to a call of the same man trying to open a victim\u2019s car door.<\/p>\n

The Kern County District Attorney\u2019s Office said on October 24, 2025, a Kern County jury found Eric Castro guilty of resisting arrest through force and violence and tampering with a vehicle without the owner\u2019s consent.<\/p>\n

The DA\u2019s office said on February 12, 2025, an officer with the Bakersfield Police Department responded to a call from a business located on Ming Avenue and Stine Road. The victim told the responding officer that she was getting out her vehicle when Eric Castro walked directly towards her, saying something she could not understand.<\/p>\n

According to the DA\u2019s office, when Castro dropped his phone, the victim ran into the business and locked her car with her electronic key fob. Castro pulled on the rear door handle to the victim\u2019s vehicle and became angry when the door would not open.<\/p>\n

When the victim looked outside to check on her vehicle, she saw Castro in the driver\u2019s seat of a red SUV parked next to her vehicle. The responding officer approached Castro\u2019s vehicle and asked to speak with him about the allegations.<\/p>\n

Castro became extremely agitated and started cursing at the officer. The officer told Castro to step out of his SUV several times.<\/p>\n

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{p}The Kern County District Attorney\u2019s Office said on October 24, 2025, a Kern County jury found Eric Castro guilty of resisting arrest through force and violence and tampering with a vehicle without the owner\u2019s consent. PHOTO: Kern County DA{\/p}<\/p>\n

The DA\u2019s office said Castro punched the responding officer in the side of the head, kicked the officer in the face and groin, and refused to step out of his vehicle. A second officer then arrived on scene to help. Castro continued yelling and resisting arrest before eventually being detained in the parking lot.<\/p>\n

Both officers sustained visible injuries.<\/p>\n

District Attorney Cynthia Zimmer commented by saying, \u201cCastro showed complete disregard for the safety of the community member and the first responders who answered to the call. Such behavior demands appropriate legal repercussions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Castro\u2019s sentencing is scheduled for November 11, 2025, where he faces up to three years and four months in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A man faces over three years in prison after being convicted of punching and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-30059","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\/30059","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=30059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}