BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A man was arrested after KCSO says he tried to recycle stolen copper wire. The arrest comes as detectives were investigating copper wire theft from a farming company in the Lamont area.<\/p>\n
The Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office said on July 22, 2026, detectives from the Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office Rural Crimes Investigations Unit were investigating a theft of copper wire from a farming company in the Lamont area.<\/p>\n
KCSO said during the investigation, detectives identified 29-year-old Rodrigo Garcia, who is on felony probation, as the suspect of theft.<\/p>\n
Detectives found Garcia at Lopez Recycling & Wrecking Yard, in the Lamont area. Detectives learned that Garcia tried to recycle the stolen copper wire at the business.<\/p>\n
Garcia was arrested for grand theft of copper wire, possession of stolen copper wire, vandalism, conspiracy, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, and driving without a license.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are numerous copper wire thefts reported throughout Kern County to the Sheriff\u2019s Office that cost companies millions of dollars in repairs each year,\u201d said in a release. Residents in these areas are encouraged to notify law enforcement if they learn of such thefts.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information regarding this investigation is asked to call the Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office Rural Crime Investigations Unit at (661)392-6071 or the Secret Witness Hotline at (661)322-4040.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A man was arrested after KCSO says he tried to recycle stolen copper wire.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-415879","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\/415879","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=415879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}