{"id":345344,"date":"2026-06-03T20:30:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/345344\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T20:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:30:38","slug":"bakersfield-hostage-situation-ends-with-suspect-in-custody-all-safe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/345344\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield hostage situation ends with suspect in custody, all safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police confirm the resolution of a hostage crisis in Bakersfield, California. The suspect, reportedly angry over a prosecution, held about 10 individuals at a Chase Bank for 13 hours, claiming to have a bomb. FBI negotiators secured the release of two hostages overnight, and the remaining hostages are safe and being reunited with family. The suspect has been taken into custody as authorities raid a nearby home in connection to the investigation. Police expect to release more details later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police confirm the resolution of a hostage crisis in Bakersfield, California. The suspect, reportedly angry over a prosecution,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,7,70043,141779,26079],"class_list":["post-345344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-california","tag-chase-bank","tag-hostage-crisis","tag-prosecution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345344","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=345344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}