{"id":520116,"date":"2026-11-06T02:54:50","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T02:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/520116\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T02:54:50","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T02:54:50","slug":"man-charged-with-stalking-trying-to-kiss-underage-girl-in-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/520116\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with stalking, trying to kiss underage girl in Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) &#8212; A 37-year-old man accused of making unwanted contact with and trying to kiss a girl after approaching her on 34th Street was arraigned Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A deputy public defender entered not guilty pleas on the behalf of Mauricio Trujillo to charges of kidnapping a child under 14 to commit a lewd or lascivious act, stalking and annoying or molesting a child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He&#8217;s due back in court Nov. 18. Bail was set at $350,000.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/kget_bakersfield_articles_800\/4a505b52d51e43c3d25c3567c4c266d3.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Around 6:30 a.m. on Oct. 29, the girl reported a man approached her in the 400 block of 34th Street and started walking alongside her, according to Bakersfield Police Department. She said he &#8220;initiated unwanted contact, and attempted to kiss her,&#8221; the department says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators learned the same man was involved in another incident the morning before, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Surveillance video captured a man identified as Trujillo getting out of a white truck and approaching the girl, according to BPD. The truck was later identified as a Chevy Silverado work vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information on this incident or who knows of other potential victims is asked to call Detective Jose Medrano at 661-326-3504 or BPD 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; A 37-year-old man accused of making unwanted contact with and trying to kiss a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-520116","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\/520116","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=520116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}