{"id":171941,"date":"2026-02-27T20:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T20:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/171941\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T20:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T20:30:08","slug":"bakersfield-man-gets-24-plus-years-for-meth-trafficking-to-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/171941\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield man gets 24-plus years for meth trafficking to Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 A Bakersfield man has been sentenced to more than 24 years in federal prison for transporting more than 130 pounds of methamphetamine to Tampa International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say 32-year-old Jacob Paul Arjona recruited two men to fly the drugs from Los Angeles to Florida in 2023 while he traveled separately to oversee distribution.<\/p>\n<p>Arjona has been in custody since February 2025 and will serve this sentence concurrently with a separate federal drug and kidnapping case.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 A Bakersfield man has been sentenced to more than 24 years in federal prison&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[81721,81722,81723,31842,81724,81727,81725,81728,135,137,81726,136],"class_list":["post-171941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-bakersfield-downtown","tag-bakersfield-drug-trafficking","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-federal-prison-sentence","tag-jacob-paul-arjona","tag-kern-county-news","tag-los-angeles-to-florida-drug-smuggling","tag-methamphetamine-trafficking","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-international-airport-meth","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}