{"id":430259,"date":"2026-08-12T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T01:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/430259\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T01:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T01:00:08","slug":"21-arrested-as-bpd-return-177-stolen-items-to-retailers-totaling-over-2700","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/430259\/","title":{"rendered":"21 arrested as BPD return 177 stolen items to retailers, totaling over $2,700"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Bakersfield police arrested 21 suspects last week and recovered 177 stolen items during a three-day national retail theft operation.<\/p>\n<p>From August 4th through August 6th, police partnered with retailers such as Dick&#8217;s Sporting Goods, Target, Ross, Dollar Tree, Macy&#8217;s, and JCPenney to identify and arrest suspects tied to organized retail theft.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Photo: Bakersfield Police Dept.\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8d7e6ecd-4df0-4769-898e-f493522fd4cc-RT1.jpg\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Bakersfield Police Dept.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged stolen items totaled $2,758.72. The seized merchandise was returned to the retailers.<\/p>\n<p>Police said that the arrests were part of a nationwide effort in the National Retail Theft Suppression Operation, which disrupts organized retail crime through coordinated investigations and targeted enforcement with retail partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Bakersfield police arrested 21 suspects last week and recovered 177 stolen items during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-430259","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\/430259","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=430259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}