{"id":313163,"date":"2026-05-13T05:18:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/313163\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T05:18:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:18:34","slug":"kcso-asking-for-help-locating-man-missing-since-may-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/313163\/","title":{"rendered":"KCSO asking for help locating man missing since May 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"242\" height=\"278\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/25a898a7eb0e31045279e15389aea2fe.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>KCSO asking for help locating man missing since May 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office is asking for help from the public in finding a man who went missing in May 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Edgar Vargas, 32 years old, is 6 feet and 2 inches tall. He has black hair, brown eyes and is about 172 pounds.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"242\" height=\"278\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/25a898a7eb0e31045279e15389aea2fe.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He has one tattoo on each arm. One arm has a dragon on it and the other has \u201cVargas\u201d tattooed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Kern County Sherriff\u2019s Office is encouraging anyone with information about Vargas\u2019s whereabouts to reach out to the office at 661-861-3110 or the Secret Witness Line at 661-861-3110. Callers can reference the case number, 2025-00152778.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KCSO asking for help locating man missing since May 2025 BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The Kern County Sheriff\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,131098],"class_list":["post-313163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-edgar-vargas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313163","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=313163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}