{"id":79270,"date":"2025-12-03T04:32:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T04:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/79270\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T04:32:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T04:32:17","slug":"bakersfield-police-search-for-missing-mother-and-son-near-castle-cary-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/79270\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield police search for missing mother and son near Castle Cary Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 Bakersfield police are asking the community to look out for a missing mother and son.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kimberly Grinder and her 6-year-old son, Adam Verdin Jr., were last seen in the 6300 block of Castle Cary Drive Dec. 1, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Grinder, 33, and her son were last seen at about 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Grinder is described to be 5 feet, 4 inches tall and 170 pounds. She was last seen in a pink T-shirt and a blue robe.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"437\" height=\"317\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/491b50150d8529e01bdea413be3308ec.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Her son Verdin was last seen wearing a long-sleeve maroon shirt, tan pants and sandals. He\u2019s described to be 4 feet tall and 70 pounds, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said Grinder could be driving a 2003 tan GMC Sierra with a license plate that read CA 57796N3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information regarding Grinder or Verdin\u2019s whereabouts is encouraged to contact the Bakersfield Police Department at 661-327-7111.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" 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\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 Bakersfield police are asking the community to look out for a missing mother and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,324,45550,45551],"class_list":["post-79270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bakersfield-police-department","tag-kimberly-grinder","tag-missing-mother"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79270","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=79270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}