{"id":453519,"date":"2026-09-04T16:40:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/453519\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T16:40:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:40:53","slug":"bakersfield-police-seek-help-identifying-suspect-in-south-chester-avenue-flag-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/453519\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield police seek help identifying suspect in South Chester Avenue flag theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department is asking for the community\u2019s help in identifying a man accused of breaking a residential flagpole and stealing the U.S. Flag.<\/p>\n<p>Police said on Monday, August 10th, 2026, the suspect allegedly broke a residential flagpole in the 1100 block of South Chester Avenue and stole a United States of America flag.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is described as a man, wearing a blue t-shirt, tan shorts, tan shoes, a cloth covering his head, and carrying a blue and white backpack.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"{p}The Bakersfield Police Department is asking for the community\u2019s help in identifying a man accused of breaking a residential flagpole and stealing the U.S. Flag. PHOTO: BPD{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/88b77c5f-96d7-4281-a0b7-08b5c7cfcb2a-UntitledAugust202025at10.44.4120260904T092603.999.png\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Bakersfield Police Department is asking for the community\u2019s help in identifying a man accused of breaking a residential flagpole and stealing the U.S. Flag. PHOTO: BPD<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to call Detective Achtmann at (661) 326-3542 or the Bakersfield Police Department at (661) 327-7111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department is asking for the community\u2019s help in identifying a man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-453519","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\/453519","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=453519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}