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Location:
300 Panorama Drive,
Bakersfield, CA
BAKERSFIELD POLICE DEPARTMENT PRESS RELEASE William Rector, Chief of Police _________________________________________________ _______________________ Contact: Sergeant Greg Terry Public Information Officer 661-326-3803 gterry@Bakersfieldpd.us For Immediate Release Monday, March 31, 2008 Suspects arrested for robbery at Panorama Bluffs On 3/30/08, at approximately 12:40 a.m., an armed robbery to a person occurred near the bike path in the 300 block of Panorama Drive. The victims,...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 31, 2008
Golden West Casino
1001 S. Union Ave
Bakersfield, California.
We are extremely pleased
that the Kern County Sherriff s Department has
arrested the alleged perpetrators of last September's
robbery of our facility. On behalf of the owners,
employees and patrons of our establishment, we want
to thank the Kern County Sheriffs Department, as
well as other law enforcement agencies involved in
this investigation, for their excellent and prompt...
BAKERSFIELD POLICE
DEPARTMENT
PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Sergeant Greg Terry
Public Information Officer
661-326-3803
gterry@Bakersfieldpd.us
For Immediate Release Monday, March 31, 2008
Marketplace robbery suspect arrested
On 3/31/08, at 12:25 p.m., Victor Murillo was arrested at the downtown...
Synopsis: Update on Lost HIkers
Details:
This is a news release of the Kern County Sheriff's Department.
Please do not contact the Sheriff's Communications Center.
Date: Monday, March 31, 2008
Time: 11:02:07 AM
Department contact: Sgt Ed Komin
Phone: 303-4592
Details:
At about 3:00 AM this morning, the Kern County Sheriff's Office received a call from the Ventura Sheriff's
Office regarding lost hikers.
Deputies discovered that...
Subject: Helicopter 408 assists with off road rescue
CALIFORNIA CITY - CA. Sunday, March 30th, 2008 at approximately 4:20 P.M.,
the Kern County Fire Department received a call from the California City
Police Department requesting assistance to rescue the victim of an off
highway vehicle accident, the exact location was unknown at the time of
call.
Helicopter 408 was dispatched and was directed to a sand wash southwest of
Twenty Mule Team Road, approximately 4 miles from California...
Subject: Apartment complex fire in Delano
DELANO, CA – Sunday, March 30th at approximately 11:03 A.M., a call was
received by the Kern County Fire Department for a structure fire in the
700 block of Freemont Street in Delano. 28 Kern County Firefighters and
members of other services responded to the incident. Their quick actions
prevented any major structural damage to the complex and kept the fire
from spreading to adjacent properties. The fire was under control within
24...
Location:
17695 Industrial Farm Road,
Bakersfield, Ca
Not sure what crimes these folks were arrested for? Check out our list below or click on the link to a penal code reference site. FRANCIS MEDINA M H 2/2/08 PC 246 PC 247(B) KCS ...
Location:
17695 Industrial Farm Road,
Bakersfield, Ca
Not sure what crimes these folks were arrested for? Check out our list below or click on the link to a penal code reference site. NICHOLAS ELLIOTT M BAKERSFIELD CA 93306 W 28/03/2008 PC 647(F) PC 1320(A) ...
Location:
17695 Industrial Farm Road,
Bakersfield, Ca
Not sure what crimes these folks were arrested for? Check out our list below or click on the link to a penal code reference site. ROGER BAXTER M BAKERSFIELD CA W 28/03/2008 PC 3056 KCS CRANE OPERATOR ...
Location:
17695 Industrial Farm Road,
Bakersfield, Ca
Not sure what crimes these folks were arrested for? Check out our list below or click on the link to a penal code reference site. DAVIAUN ARNOLD M BAKERSFIELD CA 93307 B 27/03/2008 PC 460(A) PC 496(A) PC 664/460(PC 664/460(PC 664/460( ...
TO ALL CITIZENS OF DELANO AND SURROUNDING AREA
On 03-27-08, the Delano Police Department Gang Unit received information that a
California Criminal Street Gang is going to be holding gang initiations in the cities of
Delano and McFarland. Prospective members are to collide their vehicles into random
vehicles from behind. As the driver of the victim vehicle exits, the prospective members
will open fire. This information has not been substantiated nor do we know if it is
credible.
As...
I was out Wednesday morning with Bakersfield police officer Gary Carruesco, a school resource officer, for a story we're doing on out of control juveniles.
At one point, we responded to a fight between two girls at Chipman Junior HIgh School.
The fight was over one girl talking smack about the friend of the other girl, saying she wished the friend had gotten hurt worse in a recent traffic accident.
The smack talking girl had scratches on her face from the rings of the girl who pulled her...
Location:
17695 Industrial Farm Road,
Bakersfield, Ca
Not sure what crimes these folks were arrested for? Check out our list below or click on the link to a penal code reference site. FERNANDO JASSO M ARVIN CA 93203 H 26/03/2008 USC T18SEC1US C ICEXX KCS FOREMAN ...
The Taft police fax us a log of their calls and arrests for each day.
It's actually got more information that the sheriff's arrest log.
MEDIA ADVISORY
Contact Person: Barry Bolton
Telephone: (661) 721-2345 ext. 5022/(661) 203-2283
Date: March 25, 2008
Release: For Immediate Release
INMATE ESCAPE AT NORTH KERN STATE PRISON
Two inmates housed at North Kern State Prison have been reported missing.
Staff...
Location:
17695 Industrial Farm Road,
Bakersfield, CA
Not sure what crimes these folks were arrested for? Check out our list below or click on the link to a penal code reference site. JOSE ROBLEDO M CALIFORNIA CITY CA 93505 H 25/03/2008 USC T18SEC1 KCS LABOR CHRISTOP ...
Contact: Sergeant Greg Terry
Public Information Officer
661-326-3803
gterry@Bakersfieldpd.us
For Immediate Release Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Arrests made in Hwy 178 shooting
Bakersfield Police detectives have made 4 arrests in connection with a shooting
that occurred during the early morning hours of 3/24/08...
Here's the press release on today's truancy sweep.
Truancy Sweep Results
“Operation March Madness”
Serving Central and South Bakersfield
March 25, 2008
This is the results of the Truancy Sweep conducted in Central and South Bakersfield this morning. 43 Law Enforcement Officers participated. Agencies that participated included:
• Bakersfield Police Department...
Location:
17695 Industrial Farm Road,
Bakersfield, CA
Not sure what crimes these folks were arrested for? Check out our list below or click on the link to a penal code reference site. EDER VASQUEZ M BAKERSFIELD CA 93304 H 26/02/2008 PC 273.5(A)PC 1203.2(A KCS LABORER STEVEN ALVAREZ M ...
Location:
17695 Industrial Farm Road,
Bakersfield, CA
Not sure what crimes these folks were arrested for? Check out our list below or click on the link to a penal code reference site. MARIO MCGILL M BAKERSFIELD CA 93305 H 24/03/2008 PC 273.5(A) KCS LABORER RODNEY BOHANNON M BAKERSFIELD ...
The family of Zane Newton, the boy who died last week in a tragic accident, has put his obituary in the newspaper and online.
You can sign the guest book here.
Location:
17695 Industrial Farm Road,
Bakersfield, Ca
Not sure what crimes these folks were arrested for? Check out our list below or click on the link to a penal code reference site. JAIME NAVA M LAMONT CA 93241 H 22/03/2008 HS 11550(A)PC 853.7 PC 853.7 KCS FIELD WORKER ...
Location:
17695 Industrial Farm Road,
Bakersfield, Ca
Not sure what crimes these folks were arrested for? Check out our list below or click on the link to a penal code reference site. JERRY STOKES M BAKERSFIELD CA 93306 W 21/03/2008 HS 11561 PC 3056 KCS LABORER ...
BY STEVEN MAYER
Californian staff writer
e-mail: smayer@bakersfield.com
It was five years ago this month when Glenn Maurice Johnson was first convicted of murder in the shooting death of Lamar Rufus.
But that conviction was tossed in 2004 when an appeals court found the jury did not receive proper instructions on the law.
The following year, Johnson was again convicted of the same crime — driving the getaway car in support of a gun killing in south Bakersfield.
But once again, his...
Forest Service
To begin prescribed Burning Projects
Kernville, Ca….Forest Service fire crews plan to begin ignitions on three prescribed burning operations located in Kernville, Riverkern and along the Upper Kern River north of Kernville.
The “Burma” segment of the Kernville Defensible Space Project is part of a 33 acre project both west and south of Burma Road. Firefighters have been working for approximately 1 ½ years on cutting thick,...
The Shafter High School teacher accused of trying to make methamphetamine in his school chemistry lab pleaded not guilty today at an arraignment in Kern County Superior Court.
The defendant, Jeff Ryan Scheidemantel, was arraigned on two felony counts, even though a judge earlier this month found that there was not enough evidence to sustain a charge of manufacturing methamphetamine.
At a preliminary hearing March 11, Judge Eugene L. Huseman dismissed the manufacturing charge but did find...
Location:
17695 Industrial Farm Road,
Bakersfield, Ca
Not sure what crimes these folks were arrested for? Check out our list below or click on the link to a penal code reference site. JULIO GUTIERREZ M BAKERSFIELD CA 93306 H 20/03/2008 PC 273.5(A) KCS CAR STERO INST MATT OATES M BAKERSFIELD ...
Synopsis: Cause of death for Zane Newton
Details:
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NEWS RELEASE
KERN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
CORONER DIVISION
This news release is prepared under the direction of the Sheriff-Coroner-Public Administrator for the
convenience of news reporters. Facts concerning news events of major importance, which occur after the
preparation of this release, will be made available to reporters at their request as soon as it is possible to
do so.
DECEDENT'S...
There is an interesting story on the LA Times site today that says the LAPD officers union has complained about the police chief's comment that women should be allowed in SWAT.
The story doesn't say exactly what the union's beef is. It does say the LAPD SWAT has some gruelling physical standards, and that those standards are being changed, possibly to make it easier for women to make the team.
It raises an interesting question: Should women be allowed on SWAT? Should the physical standards...
The sump where Zane Newton died Wednesday is one of nearly 340 owned by the city of Bakersfield. And they have to be secured by a 6-foot-tall fence, officials said.
But despite Zane's accident, the city doesn't plan to go inspect all 340 for holes in fences or broken chain locks, according to city water resources manager Florn Core.
Is that wise, especially in light of lawsuits families have filed against the city when their child has died on city property like the Park at Riverwalk or the...
An account has been set up to help out the family of Zane Anthony Newton, the 9-year-old boy who died Wednesday in an accident at a south Bakersfield sump.
If you'd like to donate you can go to any Kern Schools Federal Credit Union branch and tell them you want to contribute to the Zane Anthony Newton Memorial Fund.
Press Release
Proudly Serving the Cities of Arvin, Bakersfield, Delano, Maricopa, McFarland, Ridgecrest,
Shafter, Taft, Tehachapi, Wasco and all unincorporated areas of Kern County
To: All Media
Contact: Tommy Brown, Public Information Officer (661) 330-0133
Subject: Structure fire in East Bakersfield
BAKERSFIELD, CA – Thursday, March 20th at 03:22A.M., a call was received by the Kern
County Fire Department for...
Location:
17695 Industrial Farm Road,
Bakersfield, Ca
Not sure what crimes these folks were arrested for? Check out our list below or click on the link to a penal code reference site. JUAN ORELLANA M DELANO CA 93215 H 19/03/2008 USC T18 SEC KCS LABOR SAMMY PHOMMASOUK M BAKERSFIELD ...
Police have said they found the body of Zane Anthony Newton in a collapsed hole just a couple blocks from his home. The death looks accidental and police say they think the shooting and kidnapping story was made up by another 9-year-old boy.
The body of a 9-year-old who went missing Wednesday morning has been found just a block or so from his home.
Police confirmed that they found the body of Zane Anthony Newton buried in a dirt field notrhwest of where he went missing. They said it appears...
Location:
4700 Half Dome Way,
Bakersfield, CA
A 23-year-old Bakersfield man was killed after he was struck by a van Tuesday night in the 500 block of Monterey Street, the Kern County coroner’s staff reported.
Alexander Carrillo died at Kern Medical Center a half hour after the accident, the coroner's office reported.
Bakersfield police said the driver of the van tried to avoid hitting Carrillo but couldn’t. The incident was reported at 9:26 p.m.
Press Release
To: All Media
Contact: Tommy Brown, Public Information Officer (661) 330-0133
Subject: Tony Incident Update
EAST BAKERSFIELD, CA: Kern County Fire Arson Unit arrested 22 year old Maribel Gomez for
Arson last night, 3/18/2007, at 7:10 P.M. Maribel admitted to starting multiple fires through out
the home located in the 3500 block of Tony St., and also to the motor home outside. Kern County
Arson...
Location:
1209 Dalhgren,
Bakersfield, CA
Synopsis: Reckless Discharge of Firearm/Vandalism/ Spousal Battery Arrest/SR08-08778 Details: This is a news release of the Kern County Sheriff's Department. Please do not contact the Sheriff's Communications Center. Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 Time: 11:54:58 PM Department contact:Sgt. Ed Komin Details: On 3-17-08, deputies were dispatched to a disturbance at 1209 Dahlgren in East Bakersfield. When deputies arrived they...
Location:
5424 Pioneer Dr.,
bakersfield, CA
Synopsis: Victims of Shooting / SR08-09079 Details: This is a news release of the Kern County Sheriff's Department. Please do not contact the Sheriff's Communications Center. Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 Time: 4:14:56 AM Department contact:Sgt. Ed Komin Phone:661-303-4592 Details:on 3-19-08 at 01:07 hrs, deputies received a disturbance call at 5424 Pioneer Dr. in East Bakersfield. While deputies were enroute, ...
Location:
17695 Industrial Farm Road,
Bakersfield, Ca
Not sure what crimes these folks were arrested for? Check out our list below or click on the link to a penal code reference site. ELISEO SOTO M BAKERSFIELD CA 93305 H 18/03/2008 USC T18 SE KCS LABORER LEONIDES HERNANDEZ M INDIO ...
Location:
5100 Caliente Bodfish Road,
Lake Isabella, CA
Proudly Serving the Cities of Arvin, Bakersfield, Delano, Maricopa, McFarland, Ridgecrest, Shafter, Taft, Tehachapi, Wasco and all unincorporated areas of Kern County To: All Media Contact: Tommy Brown, Public Information Officer (661) 330-0133 Subject: Dog Mauling LAKE ISABELLA, CA – Tuesday, March 18th at 10:37 A.M., a call was received by the Kern County Fire Department for an elderly female who had been attacked by a dog in the 5100 block of Caliente Bodfish Rd. Kern County...
The arraignment of the California City man accused in the rape and murder of his niece has been continued to next week.
Phillip Ellison, 40, was arrested Friday in connection with the death of his 14-year-old niece, Jamesha Terry. Terry’s remains were found near Ellison’s apartment complex a year ago.
Superior Court Judge Michael Lewis continued Ellison’s arraignment to March 24.
BAKERSFIELD POLICE DEPARTMENT
NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
On 03/17/08 between the hours of 900 p.m. and 3:00 am. on 03/18/08, the Bakersfield
Police Department Traffic Division conducted D.U.I. saturation patrol for impaired
drivers.
Funding for this operation was paid through an O.T.S. grant. Officers arrested two
drivers for driving under the influence, two people were arrested for public intoxication,
one person was arrested on an outstanding felony warrant, two vehicles...
NORTH KERN STATE PRISON
PURPOSE OF INQUIRY:
The Law and Justice Committee (Committee) of the 2007-2008 Kern County Grand Jury visited North Kern State Prison (NKSP) on January15, 2008, to inquire into the condition and management of the facility pursuant to Penal Code Section 919(b).
PROCESS:
The Warden and staff met with the Committee. Following this, the Committee was given a very informative tour of the facility. The Committee was invited to ask questions as the...
You may not know it, but you can see a map of all crimes that have taken place in your neighborhood for the past week or so. You can even see a map of every call to police from your neighborhood.
The Bakersfield Police Department puts up these maps, which include the latest data from the day before.
They aren't the easiest maps to work with, but if you're curious to know what that siren was the other night or why a street was blocked off by cops, this is a good source.
Location:
17695 Industrial Farm Road,
Bakersfield, Ca
Not sure what crimes these folks were arrested for? Check out our list below or click on the link to a penal code reference site. RAY VAUGHN M BAKERSFIELD CA 93304 B 17/03/2008 PC 243.1 KCS MECHANIC ...
Location:
100 11th Ave,
Delano, CA
Delano, CA – On Monday, March 17th 2008, at 10:26 A.M., a call was received by the Kern County Fire Department for a ruptured natural gas line in the 100 block of 11th Ave. Twelve Kern County Firefighters and several other cooperating agencies responded to the scene and contained the gas leak with in 20 minutes. Upon arrival, fire crews encountered a high pressure gas leak, escaping from a ¾” pipe in the rear yard of a Delano residence. As a safety precaution,...
Location:
250 White Lane,
Bakersfield, CA
United States Attorney Eastern District of California NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 17, 2008 Contact: Lauren Horwood Docket #: 06-CR-00138-AWI http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/c... BAKERSFIELD BUSINESS OWNER PLEADS GUILTY TO FINANCIAL CHARGES FRESNO—United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced today that JAGDEEP SINGH SIDHU, 47, of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty in the United States District Court in Fresno to one count of conducting an illegal money...
Actor Thomas Jane was busted in Kern County for DUI this morning as he zoomed down I5 in his Mazerati. Apparently he also got dinged for driving on a suspended license. The scoop apparently goes to TMZ.com.
Don't know who Thomas Jane is? (I didn't) He apparently was in The Punisher and more recently The Mist.
Want to look him up in the courts calendar for yourself? His real name is apparently Thomas Elliot III.
-- Davin McHenry, Breaking News team
You meet the most interesting people while covering the court beat for a daily newspaper: murderers, rapists, home-invasion robbers — lawyers.
All lawyer jokes aside, attorneys perform a difficult and often thankless role that nevertheless remains absolutely critical in a free society. In that sense, attorneys are not so different from news reporters ... we're often hated but oh so necessary.
Which brings me to an issue that arose in Kern County Superior Court today, an issue that may...
We've got a great story about a pair of Marine buddies who hadn't seen each other in 50 years. They reconnected yesterday when Pete Petersen, 78, of Clayton, Wis. flew into Bakersfield to meet Richard Culley, 70.
That got me thinking about who I would want to reconnect with. I'm not nearly as old as these guys, but I've got some friends from school I would like to see again.
Who would you like to track down?
I value accuracy, even more than I love a great story. That's because a story can no longer be great if it's shown to be inaccurate.
Accuracy is so important The Californian chooses to publish corrections on the front page. It's a statement about our priorities.
Reporters are human. Mistakes will happen. But when it's your mistake, it hurts. Like getting gut-punched.
In recent weeks, the last name of the victim in a murder trial, Marco Antonio Gutierrez, was misspelled in several stories...
I got a call today from Ron Langsworthy, 73, who says he's been a friend of Terry Phillip Hagar, the man who died trying to save a dog from traffic on Rosedale Highway.
We ran a short piece on Hagar and the reaction to his actions yesterday, saying we couldnt find out much about him.
Langsworthy says he knew Hagar for 20 years and considered him "like a son."
Apparently the dog, a mixed pug, belonged to Hagar and was named Pug-a-poo. Langsworthy said he gave Hagar the dog and...
I have one question for the media in general! Why do we always focus on nothing but the bad. I have read the announcements of the BIG RIG "Fiery accident" on February 26th 2008 at approximately 1:30pm! Please listen to how it affected me?
To make a long story short.... I am a ER Registered Nurse who was with his friends traveling to Las Vegas for three nights! I am from Visalia and of course had to take the 58 east towards my destination....
Location:
Rosedale Highway and Fairhaven,
Bakersfield, CA
Phillip Terry Hagar , 45, was trying to save a dog on Rosedale Highway west of Fairhaven Drive when he was hit by a car and killed. The dog died, too. Here's the full story on Bakersfield.com. Was this heroism or something else?
A staffer at The Californian got a call from it on his cell phone Thursday night.
He's not the only person. Lots of people have been getting called on their cell phones by this number. And they're writing about it here.
Have you gotten a call? What happened when you answered? When you called back?
Isn't it a bit odd that cell phones are being called?
Since accused murderer Yvette Davila is a former local we've probably focused more on her than on Tim and Randi Miller, the couple Davila is accused of killing.
We're planning to remedy that in tomorrow's newspaper. For now, here's a pretty long story about the pair from the Laconia newspaper on the Millers.
(Don't know what I'm talking about? Been on the moon? Check out the links on this story.)
The Tacoma paper is also doing some good blogging on the case.
Yesterday's top story was on a car crash on Highway 58, where a guy missed the end of the freeway and barrelled into the parking lot at the Wild West Shopping center.
What really surprised us is that the wreck got more interest online than the memo outlining a plot to ambush a sheriff's deputy and a story on the local woman who allegedly killed a couple in Washington state.
Now, all of our accident stories seem to do rather well online. And this is an interesting situation. But these kinds...
Looks like the Bakersfield Police Department has gotten a grant that will allow them, in part, to install some surveillance cameras in the community to watch gang members.
I know surveillance cameras are nothing new. Wal-Mart has them in the parking lot. And if you go to London, apparently they're everywhere.
And don't think I'm pro-gang. I kinda like the idea of keeping an eye on them. And the cameras in London apparently came in handy when terrorists attacked.
But at the same time it's...
The Kern County Fire Department has launched a new web site. Not sure how muych new content there is, but it looks a bit snazzier.
Jeff Ryan Scheidemantel, the Shafter High School teacher accused of trying to make methamphetamine at a school lab, has declined the offer of a plea deal, said Deputy District Attorney Cecil "Bud" Starr.
The offer was for a maximum of two years in state prison, but it would have given the judge the discretion to impose a much lighter sentence, Starr said Wednesday.
Scheidemantel faces felony charges of manufacturing meth and possession with the intent to manufacture meth. Search...
Deleting embarrassing stuff from your computer hard drive doesn’t mean it’s really gone.
Just ask Gary Dale Myers Jr., the 30-year-old Bakersfield man accused in the Samurai sword murder of Marco Antonio Guiterrez.
Myers’ jury trial continued Tuesday in Kern County Superior Court featuring testimony from Thomas Fugitt, a computer forensic technician for the Kern County Sheriff’s Department who is an expert at searching computers for evidence and other stuff you...
We got a copy of an internal memo from the Sheriff's Department that outlines a pretty scary plot to attack (and presumeably kill) a local police officer or deputy in retaliation for the shooting of Leon Anderson Jr.
West High grad Yvette Davila is making news for allegedly shooting and killing a couple in Washington state.
There is some interesting blogging going on about this case and we've tracked down the MySpace pages for Yvette, and victims Timothy Miller and Randi Miller.
Davila's MySpace is set to private, but this blog post has gleaned some info using cached versions, including some distinctly MySpaceish photos.
Samurai swords, meth-smokers, blood spatters — who needs Court TV when you live in Kern County?
The first-degree murder trial of 30-year-old Gary Dale Myers Jr. began last week and continued Monday in Kern County Superior Court.
Myers is accused of using a Samurai sword to inflict multiple and fatal injuries on 26-year-old Marco Antonio Guiterrez on March 8, 2005.
Last week, Judge Clarence Westra Jr. ruled that a 911 tape containing the emotional voice of Melissa Splain,...
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