{"id":310996,"date":"2026-05-11T22:57:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T22:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310996\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T22:57:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T22:57:21","slug":"kcso-seeks-publics-help-finding-missing-man-last-seen-in-may-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310996\/","title":{"rendered":"KCSO seeks public\u2019s help finding missing man last seen in May 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office is asking for the public\u2019s help in finding a 32-year-old missing man who was last seen in May 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies said Edgar Vargas, 32, has been reported missing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MISSING: Edgar Vargas. Photo: Kern County Sheriff's Office.\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/00650927-1fee-426d-9d70-547feac0a07b-EDGARVARGAS.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>MISSING: Edgar Vargas. Photo: Kern County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Vargas is described as 6&#8217;2&#8243; tall and 172 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. Deputies said he has tattoos of a dragon on one arm and \u201cVargas\u201d on the other.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about Vargas\u2019 whereabouts is asked to contact the Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office at (661) 861-3110 or the Secret Witness Line at (661) 322-4040.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office is asking for the public\u2019s help in finding a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-310996","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\/310996","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=310996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}