{"id":491413,"date":"2026-10-10T09:44:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T09:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/491413\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T09:44:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T09:44:56","slug":"bakersfield-police-investigating-copper-theft-on-ming-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/491413\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield police investigating copper theft on Ming Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) &#8212; The Bakersfield Police Department is seeking the public&#8217;s help in identifying two suspects in a related vandalism and theft case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BPD said on Wednesday, Sept. 30, around 1:30 a.m., two suspects climbed over onto the roof of a TJ Maxx store located at 4312 Ming Ave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Watch 17 News, After Sunrise and more local news free on your smart TV. Click to learn more about KGET+;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\/plus\/\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Watch 17 News, After Sunrise and more local news free on your smart TV. Click to learn more about KGET+\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Law enforcement said the suspects then removed and stole a section of copper pipe, which resulted in &#8220;thousands of dollars in damage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BPD is describing one of the suspects as a male, who was wearing a white full-brim hat, a black long-sleeved shirt, dark pants and white shoes. They said he was riding a blue beach cruiser-style bike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The department is describing the other suspect also as a male, who was wearing a black hoodie, long gray shorts and dark shoes. BPD said he was also riding a bicycle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BPD is asking for anyone with information about the theft or the suspects to call BPD&#8217;s Detective Price at 661-326-3461 or the Bakersfield 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 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 seeking the public&#8217;s help in identifying two suspects in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-491413","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\/491413","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=491413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}