{"id":312203,"date":"2026-05-12T17:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/312203\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T17:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:11:11","slug":"kern-county-fire-captain-arrested-after-allegedly-sexually-abusing-minor-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/312203\/","title":{"rendered":"Kern County fire captain arrested after allegedly sexually abusing minor for years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Kern County fire captain was arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing a minor for years, according to authorities. <\/p>\n

Christopher Wells, 45, allegedly assaulted a minor between 2014 and 2022, according to a Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department statement. The department began investigating the allegations on Jan. 1, 2023. <\/p>\n

The Los Angeles District Attorney\u2019s Office filed four counts of intercourse with a minor and one count of continuous sexual abuse of a minor, according to the statement. <\/p>\n

Wells was arrested on April 29, with his bail set at $4 million, according to the statement.<\/p>\n

Anyone with more information about this case has been asked to contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department Special Victims Bureau at (877) 710-5273 or by email at specialvictimsbureau@lasd.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Kern County told NBC Los Angeles<\/a> that Wells was employed by the Kern County Fire Department in 2004 and that he is still a fire captain. <\/p>\n

\u201cBecause this is an active investigation and personnel matter, we are limited in the information we can provide at this time,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Kern County fire captain was arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing a minor for years, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[130825,5744,130827,130830,130824,48,52,51,47,130826,130829,50,49,63,5659,7839,346,98313,130828,11758,72],"class_list":["post-312203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-christopher-wells","tag-count","tag-department-statement","tag-intercourse","tag-kern-county-fire-captain","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-count-sheriff","tag-los-angeles-district-attorney","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-minor","tag-more-information","tag-office","tag-org","tag-specialvictimsbureaulasd","tag-spokesperson","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312203","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=312203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}