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Kern Valley State Prison inmate faces additional 25 years to life for assault
A Kern Valley State Prison inmate faces an additional 25 years to life after being convicted of assaulting another inmate.The ...
Kern County District Attorney’s office announces its new chief of Bureau of Investigations
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET)– The Kern County District Attorney’s office named Randall Meyer as its new chief of the Bureau of ...
KCSO: Five arrested after loaded rifle and ammunition found in car in Lamont
Four people were arrested after allegedly running from deputies and having an AR-15 style rifle in a car. Another person was ...
DA secures Kern's first Prop. 36 conviction
Kern County District Attorney Cynthia Zimmer announced Friday her office has secured its first jury-trial felony convictions under Proposition 36, the new state law that increases penalties for people ...
The San Joaquin Valley Sun7d
Romanian welfare fraudster released from Kern Co. on bail from Gypsy church rearrested, charged with 40 new felony counts
An alleged international crime ring preying on California's welfare EBT cards is getting help from a Gypsy Church in Southern ...
Man apprehended after walking away from Male Community Re-entry Program: CDCR
A man who walked away from a Male Community Re-entry Program in Kern County on Tuesday was apprehended in Bakersfield after a ...
DA: 3 arrested in EBT fraud, conspiracy investigation
The service of a search warrant on Thursday in Northridge led to the arrest of three people on suspicion of electronics benefit transfer fraud and conspiracy charges in a large-scale fraud ...
The Bakersfield Californian12d
DA: Man who fled to Arkansas convicted of attempted murder
A Kern County jury on Friday found a man guilty of four felony counts after he fled to Arkansas. Jimmy Newman was convicted ...