{"id":310782,"date":"2026-05-11T20:15:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310782\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T20:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:15:24","slug":"6-vehicles-impounded-following-mesa-marin-sports-complex-takeover-gathering-bakersfield-pd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310782\/","title":{"rendered":"6 vehicles impounded following Mesa Marin Sports Complex \u2018takeover\u2019 gathering: Bakersfield PD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:KGET Bakersfield;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"KGET Bakersfield\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/232C1E841BC0BB863E0E9B74B574D5BADEBDCEDD7912DF6C56EBCD799BAD61E9\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefill_w0_h40;quality_80;format_webp\/\"\/><\/a>Mon, May 11, 2026 at 6:31 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"976\" height=\"781\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_kget_bakersfield_articles_632\/dadd75c888257e4ec8c00a8013e4b98b.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>6 vehicles impounded following Mesa Marin Sports Complex \u2018takeover\u2019 gathering: Bakersfield PD<\/p>\n<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department said it impounded six vehicles after investigating a parking lot takeover last month at the Mesa Marin Sports Complex.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:Watch 17 News, After Sunrise and more local news free on your smart TV. Click to learn more about KGET+;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\/plus\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Watch 17 News, After Sunrise and more local news free on your smart TV. Click to learn more about KGET+\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Officials with the police department said the traffic unit became aware of a planned parking lot takeover that was scheduled for April 17 at the Mesa Marin Sports Complex at 10315 Highway 178.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_kget_bakersfield_articles_632\/7c1bf0b80f66746b8235d9bdb783abdf.jpeg\"\/><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_kget_bakersfield_articles_632\/01e2676e893f23c2dc4b8fc355ad5fe5.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Officials said the needed personnel was not available at the time to prevent the gathering, but the department\u2019s traffic unit conducted follow up investigations in relation to the event. Investigators looked into reckless driving at the parking lot and surrounding roads following the event.<\/p>\n<p>The police department asks residents to contact them when they are aware of similar large vehicle gatherings.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mon, May 11, 2026 at 6:31 PM UTC 6 vehicles impounded following Mesa Marin Sports Complex \u2018takeover\u2019 gathering:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,324,127016,590,130380],"class_list":["post-310782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bakersfield-police-department","tag-mesa-marin-sports-complex","tag-police-department","tag-traffic-unit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310782","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=310782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}