{"id":357445,"date":"2026-06-12T06:20:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T06:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/357445\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T06:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T06:20:30","slug":"bakersfield-police-seek-help-identifying-suspect-in-auto-theft-investigation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/357445\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield police seek help identifying suspect in auto theft investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Bakersfield police are asking for the public\u2019s help in identifying a suspect in a stolen vehicle investigation. The suspect was seen last month running a red light in central Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said on May 25, 2026, the suspect stole the vehicle from a home and failed to stop at a red traffic signal at the intersection of Chester Avenue and Brundage Lane. The vehicle was later recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Police described the suspect as a boy, 16-18 years old, with brown hair and wearing a black jacket, as seen in the photo.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo: Bakersfield Police Dept.\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/412b9bd1-e475-48e0-a031-e0f187066f04-GTA.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Bakersfield Police Dept.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the suspect\u2019s identity is asked to contact detective B. Looney at (661) 326-3846 or the  Bakersfield Police Department at (661) 327-7111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Bakersfield police are asking for the public\u2019s help in identifying a suspect in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-357445","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\/357445","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=357445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}