{"id":499867,"date":"2026-10-18T04:56:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T04:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/499867\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T04:56:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T04:56:32","slug":"kern-county-sheriffs-office-arrests-3-on-meth-manufacturing-distributing-gun-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/499867\/","title":{"rendered":"Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office arrests 3 on meth manufacturing, distributing, gun charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office and its high intensity drug trafficking task force helped execute a search warrant that resulted in the arrest of three people and the seizure of meth.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement executed the warrant in the desert area south of Highway 138 and 180th Street West in Lancaster, officials said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\/plus\/\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\tWatch 17 News, After Sunrise and more local news free on your smart TV. Click to learn more about KGET+\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office said once detectives converged on the property on Oct. 14, law enforcement was advised that three suspects were fleeing a structure that was believed to be a methamphetamine conversion lab.<\/p>\n<p>KCSO said the office\u2019s Air Support Unit helped direct ground units to the suspects, who were later apprehended without incident. <\/p>\n<p>Through the investigation, law enforcement identified the three suspects as Adrian Sanchez-Manriquez, 41, from Culiacan, Sinaloa-Mexico, Paulo Misael Navarrete-Sillas, 27, from Chihuahua, Mexico and Omar Vega-Madueno, 36, from Culiacan, Sinaloa-Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>KCSO said the three were identified as conspiring to possess meth for the purpose of sales, manufacture meth, maintaining a residence for the purpose of narcotic sales, possessing loaded firearms while in possession of a controlled substance, possession of stolen property, resisting arrest and trafficking meth in and around both the Central Valley and Southern California.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"260\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-16-144032.png\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image\" alt=\"\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"348\" height=\"260\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-16-144025.png\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KCSO added that the loaded firearm found was reported stolen from McFarland. <\/p>\n<p>All three suspects have been booked into the Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office Lerdo Justice Facility, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>In total, law enforcement located and seized about 248.4 pounds of methamphetamine and 1,575 pounds of methamphetamine in liquid solution. <\/p>\n<p>Officials also located several thousand dollars in U.S. currency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office and its high intensity drug trafficking task force helped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-499867","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\/499867","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=499867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}