{"id":490671,"date":"2026-10-09T19:18:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T19:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/490671\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T19:18:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T19:18:23","slug":"man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-kidnapping-woman-in-east-bakersfield-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/490671\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested on suspicion of kidnapping woman in east Bakersfield | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputies with the Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office arrested a man on suspicion of kidnapping and other crimes after receiving a report of a woman being abducted early Thursday in east Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>A KCSO news release said Joseph Cruz, age 38, was taken into custody after his truck, reportedly used in the woman\u2019s kidnapping, was found in the 800 block of Exchange Street.<\/p>\n<p>The release said deputies responded to a report of the abduction at 4:30 a.m. in the 1800 block of Pacific Street. It said witnesses reported the woman in her 30s tried to pull away from Cruz but that she was ultimately placed in his truck.<\/p>\n<p>KCSO said Cruz is also accused of domestic violence, possession of an illegal weapon and unrelated narcotics crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deputies with the Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office arrested a man on suspicion of kidnapping and other crimes after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-490671","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\/490671","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=490671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}