{"id":452691,"date":"2026-09-03T23:42:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T23:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452691\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T23:42:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T23:42:47","slug":"bakersfield-police-searching-for-man-who-allegedly-stole-gas-from-parked-vehicle-at-home-depot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452691\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield police searching for man who allegedly stole gas from parked vehicle at Home Depot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) &#8212; The Bakersfield Police Department is asking for the community&#8217;s help in identifying a suspect who allegedly stole gas from a vehicle in a Home Depot parking lot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At around 10:15 p.m. Friday, Aug. 28, the suspect was captured on video surveillance crawling under the victim&#8217;s vehicle and puncturing the gas tank to steal gas, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The vehicle was parked in the Home Depot parking lot in the 4700 block of Gosford Road.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Photo courtesy of the Bakersfield Police Department\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"717\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/kget_bakersfield_articles_800\/561dae25ddccdbc9318f7b86b7c706a8.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of the Bakersfield Police Department<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators described the suspect as a man in his 30s with a slim build. He was wearing a blue baseball hat, white T-shirt, green or gray shorts and blue athletic shoes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information about this case is encouraged to call Detective K. Guinn at 661-326-3953 or the police department at 661-327-7111.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) &#8212; The Bakersfield Police Department is asking for the community&#8217;s help in identifying a suspect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,328,177728,177767],"class_list":["post-452691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-kget","tag-kget-17-news","tag-the-bakersfield-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452691","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=452691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}