{"id":344827,"date":"2026-06-03T14:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/344827\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T14:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:21:10","slug":"bakersfield-california-bank-hostage-standoff-enters-second-day-without-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/344827\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield, California bank hostage standoff enters second day without resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bakersfield Police Department in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/west\/california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">California<\/a> announced on Tuesday that a man had barricaded himself in a Chase Bank building with some community members, and as of Wednesday morning the department has not yet announced a resolution to the hostage standoff.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital r<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/police-and-law-enforcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">eached out to the department<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The department noted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bakersfieldpd\/status\/2062164271660925019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">post<\/a> on X, \u201cTRAFFIC UPDATE: Closures are currently in effect between Truxtun Avenue and 18th Street, and between H Street and K Street. Please avoid the area if possible and allow extra travel time this morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/bomb-threat-standoff-bakersfield-chase-bank-continues-negotiators-work-release-hostages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">BOMB THREAT STANDOFF AT BAKERSFIELD CHASE BANK CONTINUES AS NEGOTIATORS WORK TO RELEASE HOSTAGES<\/a><\/p>\n<p>JP Morgan Chase provided Fox News Digital with a statement noting, \u201cWe are aware of the ongoing situation occurring at the building where our branch is located on the ground floor. The branch is currently empty, and we are working with authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Bakersfield Police Department received a call at approximately 1:00 p.m. regarding reports of a bomb threat at the Chase Bank building located at the center of Chester Avenue and 17th Street,\u201d a Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bakersfieldpd\/status\/2061983331424833800\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">press release<\/a> noted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the investigation, it was determined that an adult male subject had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">barricaded himself inside<\/a> the building with several community members,\u201d the release added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/meta-leads-largest-ever-anti-scam-operation-fbi-doj-resulting-63-arrests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">META LEADS LARGEST-EVER ANTI-SCAM OPERATION WITH FBI AND DOJ, RESULTING IN 63 ARRESTS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The department later announced in an X post issued just after midnight ET that it had \u201cnegotiated the release of a second hostage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are currently no injuries reported,\u201d the post noted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/string-burglaries-rocking-la-residential-area-committed-south-american-gangs-da-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">STRING OF BURGLARIES ROCKING LA RESIDENTIAL AREA COMMITTED BY SOUTH AMERICAN GANGS, DA SAYS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The FBI Sacremento indicated that it was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FBISacramento\/status\/2062063033132703766\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">supporting the response<\/a> to the episode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bakersfield Police Department in California announced on Tuesday that a man had barricaded himself in a Chase&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-344827","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\/344827","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=344827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}