{"id":310453,"date":"2026-05-11T16:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310453\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T16:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:03:13","slug":"bakersfield-police-seize-cars-involved-in-parking-lot-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310453\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield Police seize cars involved in parking lot takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department&#8217;s Traffic Unit has impounded several vehicles involved in a recent parking lot takeover.<\/p>\n<p>According to the BPD, the takeover took place on Friday, April 17, at the Mesa Marin Sports Complex on Highway 178.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they did not have enough personnel to stop the takeover, but a follow-up investigation resulted in the seizure of six vehicles that were involved in reckless driving in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The cars were impounded and could result in fines up to $1,500 or more, according to the BPD.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The community is encouraged to call the Bakersfield Police Department if they are aware of large vehicle gatherings and to report dangerous activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department&#8217;s Traffic Unit has impounded several vehicles involved in a recent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-310453","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\/310453","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=310453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}