BAKERSFIELD, CA \u2014 A man was barricaded inside a Chase Bank on Tuesday afternoon in Bakersfield in what police were characterizing as a bomb threat.<\/p>\n
Officers were dispatched around 1 p.m. to the area of 17th Street and Chester Avenue, according to Sgt. Eric Celedon, who described the location as a “very active scene.”<\/p>\n
SWAT, bomb squad, crisis negotiation, drone, K-9 and federal personnel were all on the scene as of Tuesday afternoon, Celedon said, urging people to avoid downtown Bakersfield and noting all surrounding buildings had been evacuated.<\/p>\n
An unkown number of people were inside the bank, according to police.<\/p>\n
A JPMorgan Chase spokesperson, Peter Kelley, said they\u2019re working with law enforcement and their \u201cfocus is on the safety of everyone involved.\u201d He provided no other details.<\/p>\n
Several city buildings were placed on lockdown, including City Hall North, City Hall South, the Development Services Building, and Bakersfield Police Headquarters.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story. Check back for details.<\/p>\n
The Associated Press contributed to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, CA \u2014 A man was barricaded inside a Chase Bank on Tuesday afternoon in Bakersfield in what…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-343639","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\/343639","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=343639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}