{"id":32615,"date":"2025-10-31T23:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T23:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/32615\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T23:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T23:03:16","slug":"taft-woman-arrested-for-alleged-stolen-copper-wire-and-having-over-15-ebt-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/32615\/","title":{"rendered":"Taft woman arrested for alleged stolen copper wire and having over 15 EBT cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 39-year-old woman was arrested during a search warrant in Taft for allegedly having stolen copper wire, over 15 EBT cards, and controlled substance.<\/p>\n<p>The Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office said on October 30, 2025, deputies assigned to the Taft Substation with the help from members of the Rural Crimes Investigation Unit (RCIU) served a search warrant in the 300 block of Tyler Street.<\/p>\n<p>KCSO said controlled substance, about 50 pounds of stolen copper wire, and over 15 EBT cards were seized.<\/p>\n<p>One person was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>39-year-old Melissa Rodriguez was arrested for possession of a controlled substance, possession of stolen property, and obtaining public aid through false statements or misrepresentation.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez was booked into the Lerdo jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 39-year-old woman was arrested during a search warrant in Taft for allegedly having&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-32615","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\/32615","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=32615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}