{"id":345504,"date":"2026-06-03T22:20:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T22:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/345504\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T22:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T22:20:23","slug":"suspect-identified-in-bakersfield-bomb-threat-hostage-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/345504\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect identified in Bakersfield bomb threat\/hostage incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the deadly shooting of the suspect involved in a bomb threat and hostage situation in downtown Bakersfield, law enforcement continues to share new information on the incident and the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH FULL PRESS CONFERENCE FROM BPD AND FBI BELOW:<\/p>\n<p>The FBI named Anthony Scott Searles-Harris, 41, as the suspect who made the bomb threat, took hostages, and was later killed by the FBI. <\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1780525223_930_.png\" alt=\"Anthony Scott Searles-Harris\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Megan&#8217;s Law<\/p>\n<p>They say he served in the Army from 2006 to 2007 but was dishonorably discharged due to going AWOL.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI also said he was no stranger to law enforcement. In 2014, he was charged with having sex with a minor and was registered as a sex offender.<\/p>\n<p>Searles-Harris tied up five hostages in the incident on the second floor of the building. The FBI says they were employees with the Kern County Superintendent of Schools.<\/p>\n<p>All hostages are said to be unharmed and received medical attention at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the deadly shooting of the suspect involved in a bomb threat and hostage situation in downtown Bakersfield,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,155,153,152,33087,26289,70043,1055,12015,162,135],"class_list":["post-345504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-downtown","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bomb","tag-bomb-threat","tag-chase-bank","tag-fbi","tag-hostage","tag-kern-county-news","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345504","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=345504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}