{"id":517586,"date":"2026-11-03T22:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T22:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/517586\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T22:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T22:28:08","slug":"bakersfield-police-seek-info-on-37-year-old-man-accused-of-trying-to-kiss-underage-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/517586\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield police seek info on 37-year-old man accused of trying to kiss underage girl"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department\u2019s Special Victims Unit is seeking information regarding 37-year-old Mauricio Trujillo after he allegedly got out of a white Chevrolet Silverado work truck, walked beside an underage girl, and tried to kiss her on 34th Street near Memorial Hospital.<\/p>\n

Bakersfield police said on Thursday, October 29th, 2026, at around 6:30 a.m., a girl reported being approached by a man in the 400 block of 34th Street.<\/p>\n

The child said the man walked alongside her, initiated unwanted physical contact, and tried to kiss her, according to police.<\/p>\n

Police said investigators learned of an encounter involving the same man the previous morning.<\/p>\n

Bakersfield police said through follow-up investigation, detectives identified 37-year-old Mauricio Trujillo as the suspect.<\/p>\n

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The Bakersfield Police Department\u2019s Special Victims Unit is seeking information regarding 37-year-old Mauricio Trujillo after he allegedly got out of a white Chevrolet Silverado work truck, walked beside an underage girl, and tried to kiss her on 34th Street near Memorial Hospital. PHOTO: BPD<\/p>\n

Surveillance video captured Trujillo getting out of a white truck before approaching the child. Further investigation identified the truck as a white Chevrolet Silverado work truck.<\/p>\n

The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information, or anyone who believes they may have been victimized by Trujillo, is asked to call Detective Jose Medrano at (661) 326-3504 or the Bakersfield Police Department at (661) 327-7111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department\u2019s Special Victims Unit is seeking information regarding 37-year-old Mauricio Trujillo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-517586","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\/517586","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=517586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}