{"id":325119,"date":"2026-05-20T20:56:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/325119\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T20:56:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:56:22","slug":"inmate-escape-at-kern-medical-center-prompts-deputy-response-suspect-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/325119\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmate escape at Kern Medical Center prompts deputy response; suspect in custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 An inmate who escaped at Kern Medical Center Wednesday morning was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>The Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office said on Wednesday, May 20, 2026, at around 11 a.m., deputies responded to the escape of an inmate from detention deputy custody at Kern Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>The inmate, identified as 45-year-old Vincent Xavier Deleon, had been transported to Kern Medical for a scheduled appointment when he ran from custody.<\/p>\n<p>KCSO said deputies initiated an immediate search of the surrounding area.<\/p>\n<p>Deleon was apprehended without incident in the 1800 block of Quincy Street at around 12:40 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>KCSO said further information will be provided as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 An inmate who escaped at Kern Medical Center Wednesday morning was arrested. The Kern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-325119","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\/325119","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=325119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}