{"id":385146,"date":"2026-07-03T17:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T17:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/385146\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T17:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T17:07:07","slug":"three-arrested-after-illegal-drugs-and-fireworks-found-in-east-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/385146\/","title":{"rendered":"Three arrested after illegal drugs and fireworks found in East Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX)  \u2014 Three men were arrested after a joint D.E.A. operation seized illegal drugs and fireworks in East Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>The Bakersfield Police Department says Narcotics Detectives, Drug Enforcement Administration Agents, and California Highway Patrol Officers assigned to a D.E.A. task force received multiple complaints about two illegal marijuana dispensaries operating in East Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the dispensaries were located in the 500 block of East California Avenue near a church. <\/p>\n<p>In March 2026, B.P.D. Narcotics Detectives found a business operating at 522 East California Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the building was posted as uninhabitable by Bakersfield Code Enforcement but had resumed operation as an illegal marijuana dispensary.<\/p>\n<p>B.P.D. Vice Detectives and The Bakersfield Fire Department Arson Investigators also found illegal fireworks were being sold at 518 East California Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators served search warrants at both locations.<\/p>\n<p>On July 2, 38-year-old Richard Moran, 22-year-old Frankee Apodaca, and 27-year-old Philip Padilla were arrested on multiple narcotics-related charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Three men were arrested after a joint D.E.A. operation seized illegal drugs and fireworks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-385146","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\/385146","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=385146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}