{"id":43225,"date":"2025-11-07T23:21:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T23:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/43225\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T23:21:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T23:21:06","slug":"bakersfield-police-arrest-2-men-for-allegedly-selling-drugs-to-homeless-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/43225\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield police arrest 2 men for allegedly selling drugs to homeless population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department announced the arrest of two men on Thursday in south Bakersfield on multiple drug charges, including allegedly selling methamphetamine to the homeless. <\/p>\n<p>On Nov. 6, 2025, the BPD&#8217;s Impact Unit arrested Eric Prindle, 55, in the 3400 block of Agate Street for alleged possession and transportation of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n<p>Johnathan Midkiff, 40, was arrested in the 3700 block of McCoury Street for alleged possession and transportation of a controlled substance, as well as prohibited firearm possession charges.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Officers reportedly observed Prindle distributing fentanyl to the homeless, leading them to a second location where Midkiff was allegedly seen selling fentanyl and\/or methamphetamine to four individuals. <\/p>\n<p>Both men were detained and arrested for related narcotics charges. <\/p>\n<p>Prindle was allegedly found with over three ounces of crystal methamphetamine and fentanyl, while Midkiff was allegedly found with over six ounces of fentanyl, methamphetamine, three stolen firearms, and $690.<\/p>\n<p>Prindle <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/kern-county-officers-arrest-four-in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">was arrested back in March<\/a> during a probation search on drug-related charges and for violating Post Release Community Supervision.<\/p>\n<p>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 The Bakersfield Police Department announced the arrest of two men on Thursday in south Bakersfield&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-43225","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\/43225","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=43225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}