{"id":340314,"date":"2026-05-31T15:32:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T15:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/340314\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T15:32:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T15:32:01","slug":"ex-condors-trainers-trial-postponed-to-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/340314\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Condors trainer\u2019s trial postponed to August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 A trial date for a former Bakersfield Condors athletic trainer accused of attempting to meet a minor for sex was postponed Friday to August.<\/p>\n<p>Chad Drown is now scheduled for trial Aug. 10 on two felony counts filed in connection to his arrest in an online sting targeting adults seeking children for sex.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 9, 2022, Drown was arrested after showing up at a local park to meet someone he believed was a 15-year-old boy for sex, according to court filings. He\u2019d earlier engaged in a sexually explicit conversation with a sheriff\u2019s detective posing as a teenager on the gay dating app Grindr and made plans to meet, the filings say.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;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":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 A trial date for a former Bakersfield Condors athletic trainer accused of attempting to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[140230,151,3855,153,152,328],"class_list":["post-340314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-athletic-trainer","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-condors","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-kget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340314","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=340314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}