{"id":79128,"date":"2025-12-03T02:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T02:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/79128\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T02:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T02:41:08","slug":"police-seek-help-finding-missing-at-risk-mother-and-son-last-seen-in-ne-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/79128\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seek help finding missing at-risk mother and son last seen in NE Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department is asking for the public&#8217;s help in finding Kimberly Grinder, 33, and her 6-year-old son, Adam Verdin Jr., who were last seen on Dec. 1, 2025, at approximately 8 p.m. in the 6300 block of Castle Cary Drive, in northeast Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>Both are considered at risk, as this is their first time missing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kimberly Grinder, 33, and her 6-year-old son, Adam Verdin Jr., last seen on Dec. 1, 2025, at approximately 8 p.m. in the 6300 block of Castle Cary Drive. Photo: Bakersfield Police Dept.{p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/035ffab6-d3e7-433d-8422-82ccbe4ae363-KG2.jpg\"\/>Kimberly Grinder, 33, and her 6-year-old son, Adam Verdin Jr., last seen on Dec. 1, 2025, at approximately 8 p.m. in the 6300 block of Castle Cary Drive. Photo: Bakersfield Police Dept.<\/p>\n<p>Grinder is described as a woman, 5 feet 4 inches tall, 170 pounds, and was last seen wearing a pink t-shirt and blue robe.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Verdin is described as a boy, 4-foot-tall, weighing 70 pounds, and was last seen wearing a maroon long-sleeve shirt, tan pants, and tan sandals. <\/p>\n<p>Grinder may be driving a 2003 tan GMC Sierra truck with California license plate 57796N3. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on their whereabouts is urged to contact the Bakersfield Police Department at (661) 327-7111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department is asking for the public&#8217;s help in finding Kimberly Grinder, 33,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-79128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79128","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=79128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}