{"id":418317,"date":"2026-07-30T18:16:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T18:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/418317\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T18:16:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T18:16:32","slug":"kern-county-sheriffs-office-arrests-man-on-probation-for-alleged-copper-wire-theft-in-lamont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/418317\/","title":{"rendered":"Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office arrests man on probation for alleged copper wire theft in Lamont"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 Through an investigation in Lamont, detectives with the Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office arrested a man in connection to a copper wire theft.<\/p>\n

Law enforcement arrested 29-year-old Rodrigo Garcia for an alleged copper wire theft from a Lamont area farming company while he was on felony probation. <\/p>\n

Detectives located Garcia at Lopez Recycling & Wrecking Yard in Lamont. <\/p>\n

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KCSO said detectives learned that Garcia had attempted to recycle the stolen copper wire at the business.<\/p>\n

Garcia was arrested on suspicion of 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

KCSO said there are \u201cnumerous\u201d copper wire thefts reported throughout the county to the Sheriff\u2019s Office that costs companies millions of dollars each year to repair damages. <\/p>\n

As a result, law enforcement is urging residents to notify officers of copper wire thefts.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact the Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office Rural Crimes Investigations Unit at 661-392-6071 or the Secret Witness Hotline at 661-322-4040. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 Through an investigation in Lamont, detectives with the Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office arrested a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-418317","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\/418317","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=418317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}