{"id":350173,"date":"2026-06-07T03:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T03:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/350173\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T03:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T03:01:18","slug":"shafter-man-arrested-on-felon-in-possession-charge-after-handgun-found-in-home-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/350173\/","title":{"rendered":"Shafter man arrested on felon-in-possession charge after handgun found in home call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A Shafter man was arrested on Tuesday after probation officers said they found a handgun in a home call, said the Kern County Probation Department.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, June  2, 2026, officers assigned to the department&#8217;s Adult Supervision Services Division conducted a home call in the 400 block of East Ash Avenue in Shafter.<\/p>\n<p>Ricardo Abarca was contacted, who is on felony probation with search terms, said officials. In the search, officers said they found a Glock model 22 handgun.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo: Kern County Probation Dept.\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1ed549fd-312c-411e-a910-3bbc5291bd9c-KC4.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Kern County Probation Dept.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, Abarca was arrested on charges of possession of a firearm by a felon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A Shafter man was arrested on Tuesday after probation officers said they found a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-350173","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\/350173","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=350173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}