{"id":681110,"date":"2026-06-03T03:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/681110\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T03:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:29:10","slug":"police-say-man-barricaded-himself-inside-bank-with-others-in-california-city-of-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/681110\/","title":{"rendered":"Police say man barricaded himself inside bank with others in California city of Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. &#8212; Several buildings in downtown Bakersfield, Calif., are on lockdown due to a reported active bomb threat and hostage situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The bomb threat was reported at the Chase Bank Building at Chester and 17th Street around 1 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">An unidentified man entered the bank and is currently &#8220;barricaded&#8221; with an unknown number of people, according to Bakersfield Police Department Sgt. Eric Celedon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers say one hostage has been released from the building and everyone else remains safe. Negotiations with the suspect remain ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to ABC affiliate KERO, Bakersfield City Hall and Police Headquarters are among the buildings on lockdown as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are assisting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">California U.S. District 22 candidate Dr. Jasmeet Bains canceled her election night event due to the ongoing hostage situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Stay with us for the latest details on this developing story.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. &#8212; Several buildings in downtown Bakersfield, Calif., are on lockdown due to a reported active bomb&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[296657,23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-681110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-296657","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}