{"id":438885,"date":"2026-08-21T00:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T00:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/438885\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T00:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T00:56:08","slug":"court-records-man-67-to-be-arraigned-in-teens-hit-and-run-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/438885\/","title":{"rendered":"Court records: Man, 67, to be arraigned in teen&#8217;s hit-and-run death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 67-year-old man accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/bpd-pedestrian-killed-in-union-avenue-hit-and-run-after-exiting-vehicle-bakersfield-police-department-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hitting and killing a 17-year-old Bakersfield girl with a vehicle on Union Avenue<\/a> is set to be arraigned next month after a judge held him to answer on all charges on Thursday, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Ferguson was arrested on August 5 following an investigation into a July 18 crash that left 17-year-old Love Icelyn Dixon dead. Dixon was injured in the crash and later died at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/flock-cameras-called-invaluable-as-bpd-tracks-suspect-in-union-avenue-fatal-hit-run-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PREVIOUS REPORTING: Flock cameras called \u201cinvaluable\u201d as BPD tracks suspect in Union Avenue fatal hit-run<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ferguson faces a felony charge of hit-and-run resulting in death or injury, along with misdemeanor charges related to driving on a suspended or revoked license for DUI and driving while addicted to drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield police said officers were called at around 10:45 p.m. on July 18 to the 3600 block of Union Avenue for a crash involving a vehicle and a pedestrian.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they found Dixon down in the road with severe injuries, police said. She was taken to the hospital, where she later died.<\/p>\n<p>Police said their investigation determined Dixon had gotten out of a vehicle that had stopped in the No. 1 lane of northbound Union Avenue when she was struck by another vehicle traveling north in the No. 2 lane. Police said the driver of the vehicle involved did not stop and drove away from the scene immediately after the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators used Flock Safety cameras to help identify the suspect vehicle, police said, calling the cameras \u201cinvaluable.\u201d Police said further investigation identified a possible suspect and led to a search warrant for the vehicle and the suspect\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle was found with damage consistent with the crash and physical evidence on the front of the vehicle, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson is set to be arraigned on Sept. 2, 2026. He pleaded not guilty on August 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A 67-year-old man accused of hitting and killing a 17-year-old Bakersfield girl with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-438885","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\/438885","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=438885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}