BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A month-long investigation ended with two people arrested for allegedly distributing fentanyl. In a search, authorities allegedly found over three pounds of fentanyl and nearly $25,000.<\/p>\n
The Bakersfield Police Department said on Tuesday, November 4th, 2025, the department, working in coordination with DEA agents, detectives from the Major Narcotics Unit, and CHP officers assigned to the DEA Task Force, completed an investigation which led to a major narcotics arrest.<\/p>\n
20-year-old Deigo Vargas and 19-year-old Tomas Reyes-Jimenez were taken into custody and booked on multiple drug trafficking-related charges.<\/p>\n
With the help of BPD\u2019s Violent Crime Apprehension Team (VCAT), Special Enforcement Unit (SEU) and CHP officers, a search warrant was executed at a home in the 700 block of Washington Street. The search ended in the seizure of over three pounds of fentanyl and $24,980.<\/p>\n
Police said in a release that in July, BPD narcotics detectives, DEA agents, and CHP officers assigned to the DEA Task Force began a coordinated investigation into a possible large-scale drug trafficking organization operating out of a Bakerfield home, with the involved people allegedly distributing fentanyl to mid-level dealers across Bakersfield and Kern County.<\/p>\n
This investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information regarding this investigation is asked to call the Bakersfield Police Department at (661) 327-7111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A month-long investigation ended with two people arrested for allegedly distributing fentanyl. In a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-41089","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\/41089","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=41089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}