{"id":50304,"date":"2025-11-12T23:17:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T23:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/50304\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T23:17:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T23:17:40","slug":"four-arrests-made-in-grand-theft-and-credit-card-skimming-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/50304\/","title":{"rendered":"Four arrests made in grand theft and credit card skimming scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Four people, three from Houston, Texas and one from Las Vegas, Nevada, were arrested for alleged grand theft and card skimming in Kern County.<\/p>\n

The Kern County Sheriff’s Office said on November 6, deputies in Buttonwillow received several reports of fraudulent credit card use, totaling in thousands of dollars, at a truck stop on Lagoon Drive.<\/p>\n

KCSO said an investigation found that four people were allegedly involved in stealing diesel fuel from the truck stop using fuel tanks and five-gallon water bottles in the beds of two trucks.<\/p>\n

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Four people, three from Houston, Texas and one from Las Vegas, Nevada, were arrested for alleged grand theft and card skimming in Kern County. PHOTO: KCSO<\/p>\n

Deputies found two of the trucks involved at a nearby hotel and arrested 42-year-old Yasel Yedra Rodriguez of Houston, Texas, and Yoagner Torres Rodriguez of Las Vegas, Nevada, for fraud, grand theft and conspiracy charges.<\/p>\n

KCSO said they also found computers and other equipment commonly used in credit card skimming.<\/p>\n

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Four people, three from Houston, Texas and one from Las Vegas, Nevada, were arrested for alleged grand theft and card skimming in Kern County. PHOTO: KCSO<\/p>\n

On November 7, deputies found a third vehicle allegedly involved and arrested 37-year-old Roland Martin Santos and 34-year-old Aneysi Afonso Amuedo, both of Houston, Texas.<\/p>\n

Both were arrested for diesel fuel theft and possession of card skimming equipment.<\/p>\n

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All four of the suspects were booked into Lerdo Jail for fraudulent credit card use, alteration of credit card account information, grand theft of property and conspiracy to commit a crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Four people, three from Houston, Texas and one from Las Vegas, Nevada, were arrested…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-50304","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\/50304","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=50304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}