PREVIOUS REPORTING: KCSO sergeant arrested for allegedly removing evidence from property room<\/a><\/p>\nAccording to the sheriff\u2019s office, KCSO Command Staff reviewed surveillance footage that revealed Sergeant Dunbier had entered the property room, which was closed for a holiday, and potentially removed unknown items of evidence. Following this discovery, investigators executed a search warrant at Dunbier\u2019s home, where they allegedly found three items of evidence identified as drug paraphernalia, one of which contained a usable amount of suspected narcotics.<\/p>\n
On January 21, 2026, the KCSO submitted a request to the Kern County District Attorney\u2019s Office to file criminal charges. The DA\u2019s office stated that after an initial review, prosecutors determined that further investigation was necessary to meet the \u201cbeyond a reasonable doubt\u201d standard.<\/p>\n
After the completion of additional investigations, on April 24, 2026, the District Attorney’s Office filed five criminal charges against Dunbier, including:<\/p>\n
Second-degree commercial burglary (Felony)Manufacture, sale, or possession of a short-barreled shotgun or rifle (Felony)Possession of an assault rifle (Felony)Under the influence of a controlled substance (Misdemeanor)Possession of an injection\/smoking device (Misdemeanor)Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n
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Dunbier has been employed by the KCSO since 2001. He was placed on administrative leave following his arrest.<\/p>\n
KSCO said that for the administrative investigation, these allegations will be submitted to the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) for an independent decertification review.<\/p>\n
Dunbier was arrested and later posted bail on April 24, 2026. He is scheduled to appear in court for a preliminary hearing on August 5, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Kern County Sergeant Ryan Dunbier pleaded not guilty on Monday to five charges related…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-324645","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\/324645","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=324645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}