BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A man suspected in a domestic dispute was arrested after allegedly intentionally ramming into another car, leading CHP on a pursuit along Highway 99, and assaulting a K9 during his arrest. The pursuit ended after he tried to avoid a spike strip, lost control of his vehicle and rolled over.<\/p>\n
The California Highway Patrol said on August 3, 2026, shortly after 4 p.m., officers monitored radio traffic regarding a man described as Hispanic and in his late 20s driving a Nissan Rogue who was involved in a domestic dispute and reckless driving.<\/p>\n
CHP said officers positioned themselves to intercept and stop the suspect vehicle near southbound Highway 99 and Avenue 184 in Tulare County.<\/p>\n
According to CHP, after finding the vehicle, the suspect purposefully rammed a Toyota Corolla, prompting officers to initiate a pursuit. As the pursuit proceeded southbound on Highway 99 near Merced Avenue, officers from the Bakersfield CHP office and a K9 unit took over the pursuit.<\/p>\n
In the area of 7th Standard Road, officers deployed a spike strip. The suspect tried to avoid the spike strip, lost control of the vehicle, and overturned, with the vehicle coming to rest on its wheels, according to CHP.<\/p>\n
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Officers on scene gave numerous verbal commands and canine announcements to the driver as he remained in the vehicle. The driver failed to comply, and CHP K9 \u201cOso\u201d was deployed.<\/p>\n
During the apprehension, the suspect actively assaulted K9 Oso.<\/p>\n
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CHP said officers converged and extracted the suspect from the vehicle, taking him into custody without further incident.<\/p>\n
The suspect was medically cleared at a hospital and booked at the Tulare County Pre-trial facility for various felony charges.<\/p>\n
There were no injuries to CHP officers or K9 Oso.<\/p>\n
CHP said the occupants of the Toyota Corolla sustained minor injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A man suspected in a domestic dispute was arrested after allegedly intentionally ramming into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-424106","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\/424106","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=424106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}