{"id":37697,"date":"2025-11-04T16:21:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T16:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/37697\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T16:21:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T16:21:27","slug":"five-arrested-and-over-3600-lbs-of-meth-seized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/37697\/","title":{"rendered":"five arrested and over 3,600 lbs of meth seized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A multi-agency investigation led to the dismantling of a meth lab and 5 people being arrested on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities searched a home in the 400 block of Rian Noelle Ct in Bakersfield, where a meth lab was discovered.<\/p>\n<p>There, they seized 953.9 lbs of meth, over 2,725 lbs of meth in solution, other dangerous chemicals, and arrested 49-year-old Fausto Zazueta-Beltran.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities arrested 29-year-old Christian Castro, 22-year-old Kymberly Lopez-Garcia, and 26-year-old Jesus Felix-Castro during a traffic stop on Highway 99 and seized 10 lbs of meth.<\/p>\n<p>46-year-old Casimiro Violante-Lopez was also arrested at another location in Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>Each of them was arrested and booked, facing charges of manufacturing a controlled substance, possession for sale, Transportation of a controlled substance, maintaining a residence for drug sales, and conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>Casimiro Violante-Lopez was also wanted in connection with a 2021 KC-HIDTA case involving 53 lbs of meth.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/halloween-traffic-stop-uncovers-over-100-grams-of-drugs-leading-to-two-arrests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Halloween traffic stop uncovers over 100 grams of drugs leading to two arrests<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office, KC-HIDTA Task Force, Special Services Unit, and Kern County Probation were involved in the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the Kern County Environmental Health and Code Compliance unit dismantled the lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A multi-agency investigation led to the dismantling of a meth lab and 5 people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-37697","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\/37697","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=37697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}