{"id":401262,"date":"2026-07-16T21:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/401262\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T21:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:10:17","slug":"bakersfield-fd-working-to-identifying-suspects-in-mariscos-las-islitas-mexican-restaurant-arson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/401262\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield FD working to identifying suspects in Mariscos Las Islitas Mexican Restaurant arson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The Bakersfield Fire Department is seeking the public&#8217;s help identifying the people or person involved in the arson incident earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bakersfield FD is investigating an arson fire that occurred at Mariscos Las Islitas Mexican Restaurant, located at 1601 Panama Lane, the department said in a press release on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The fire broke out on Wednesday, July 15, around 1:40 a.m. when an unknown person or persons threw six Molotov cocktails through the restaurant&#8217;s windows in an attempt to set the establishment on fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The fire was contained before causing severe damage to the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information regarding the incident is urged to contact the Bakersfield Fire Department&#8217;s arson investigators at 661-326-3699.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The department said information leading to the identity of the suspect or suspects could be &#8220;critical&#8221; to the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The Bakersfield Fire Department is seeking the public&#8217;s help identifying the people or person&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[161067,75302,151,153,152,161068,45467,16551],"class_list":["post-401262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-arson-fire","tag-arson-investigators","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-mariscos-las-islitas","tag-molotov-cocktails","tag-unknown-person"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401262","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=401262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}