{"id":504071,"date":"2026-10-22T10:14:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/504071\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T10:14:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:14:31","slug":"man-pleads-no-contest-to-burglarizing-kern-county-jury-services-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/504071\/","title":{"rendered":"Man pleads no contest to burglarizing Kern County Jury Services building"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 One of several suspects accused of burglarizing the Kern County Jury Services building on multiple days in August has been arrested, according to a court document.<\/p>\n

Between Aug. 22 and Aug. 24, several suspects broke into the Jury Services building at 1661 L St., a detective with the Bakersfield Police Department wrote in a court filing.<\/p>\n

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Once inside, they allegedly went into the Public Defender\u2019s office and stole laptops, cellphones, a wheelchair, flash drives, external hard drives, camera and identification equipment and more.<\/p>\n

They also stole several personal belongings such as knives, speakers, bags and purses as well as equipment like dollies and a water cooler, according to the document.<\/p>\n

One of the suspects was identified as Alan Wayne Cofield, 51, the detective said in the document. Cofield was arrested Aug. 31.<\/p>\n

Cofield was charged with two counts of felony robbery and a misdemeanor drug charge, according to court records. He pleaded no contest to one count of robbery and the misdemeanor and is set to be sentenced Nov. 13.<\/p>\n

Cofield faces 28 months in prison for this case, but a total of about six years in his other combined cases, according to the Kern County District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

A small portion of the stolen items were recovered after police served a search warrant at Cofield\u2019s home in the 1300 block of Chester Avenue, the document read.<\/p>\n

However, Cofield reportedly refused to tell police the whereabouts of the rest of the items or the outstanding suspects.<\/p>\n

BPD got a search warrant to seize and examine Cofield\u2019s cellphone data to find possible information, according to the document.<\/p>\n

A couple days after the burglaries, BPD asked for the public\u2019s help in identifying five suspects<\/a> in relation to the incidents.<\/p>\n

17 News reached out to BPD Tuesday asking about any suspects who were identified and\/or remain outstanding but has not heard back as of Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information is asked to call Detective R. Ryder at 661-326-3273 or Bakersfield Police Department at 661-327-7111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 One of several suspects accused of burglarizing the Kern County Jury Services building on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-504071","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\/504071","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=504071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}