{"id":343732,"date":"2026-06-03T00:53:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T00:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/343732\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T00:53:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T00:53:24","slug":"police-respond-to-bomb-threat-and-hostage-situation-at-bakersfield-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/343732\/","title":{"rendered":"Police respond to bomb threat and hostage situation at Bakersfield bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bakersfield police responded to a bomb threat and hostage situation at a Chase Bank on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Police say there is an unknown number of people inside. Several nearby buildings have been evacuated as a precaution, including City Hall North, City Hall South, and Bakersfield Police Headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries or arrests have been reported at this time. <\/p>\n<p>The bomb threat was still active as of 4:30 p.m., according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\/news\/local-news\/large-police-presence-in-downtown-bakersfield-tuesday\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">KGET<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Follow KNX News 1070 AM<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KNXnews\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> |<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/knxnews\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> Facebook<\/a> |<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/knxnews\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> Instagram<\/a> |<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@knxnews\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> TikTok<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bakersfield police responded to a bomb threat and hostage situation at a Chase Bank on Tuesday. Police say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-343732","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\/343732","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=343732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}