BPD: Two injured in collision involving patrol vehicle
A Bakersfield Police Department officer responding to an emergency Thursday morning crashed his patrol vehicle into a white sedan driven by a 17-year-old boy at the intersection of Ming Avenue and Buena Vista Road, according to a BPD news release.
BPD officials reported the collision, which occurred around 8:21 a.m., resulted in the boy being taken to the hospital for moderate injuries, while the officer was treated for minor injuries.
The driver of the sedan is listed in stable condition, according to the release.
The preliminary investigation revealed the officer was responding with his lights and siren activated while traveling east through the intersection on a red light and struck the oncoming sedan, which was traveling through the intersection on a green light.
Drugs and alcohol do not appear to be factors in the collision.
The Major Collision Investigations Team has assumed the investigation, the release noted.
The intersection at Ming Avenue and Buena Vista Road was closed for several hours as a result.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is encouraged to contact the BPD at 661-327-7111.
Kern County Sheriff’s Office deputies with the Taft substation arrested a man Tuesday on suspicion of weapons
and drugs charges.
The KCSO Special Investigations Division served a warrant at a home in the 27000 block of Tank Farm Road for the arrest of Joe
Barraza, according to a KCSO news release.
Barraza was arrested for an outstanding felony warrant on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, criminal threats, illegal discharge of a firearm and domestic violence charges. He was also found to be in possession of two loaded firearms at the time of his arrest, according to the release.
As a result of the search warrant at Barraza’s residence, deputies located several operable assault rifles, handguns, numerous gun parts, ammunition and methamphetamine.
Barraza was also arrested on suspicion of multiple weapons violations, including possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, carrying a loaded firearm, possession of ammunition by a prohibited person, carrying a concealed firearm in a vehicle, possession of a short barreled rifle and possession of a controlled substance, among other weapons charges.
Anyone with additional information regarding this investigation can contact KCSO at 661-861-3110 or Secret Witness 661-322-4040.
A Kern County jury acquitted Ahmed Abdulla on Wednesday of all felony charges related to an alleged July 2021
domestic battery and false imprisonment of Dawn Oxford.
At the time, Abdulla and Oxford were in a romantic dating relationship, according to a public defender’s office.
Deputy Public Defender Gordon Lake successfully challenged Oxford’s credibility and argued that her injuries, while significant, were not the result of domestic abuse.
If convicted as charged, Abdulla, who had no prior felony record, would have faced 9 years, 8 months in custody.
Two other felony charges for possession of a controlled substance while armed with a loaded firearm were dismissed after Lake’s motion to set aside those counts was granted by the court.
The Bakersfield Police Department arrested a convicted felon Tuesday on suspicion of possession of controlled
substances for purposes of sales, felon in possession of firearms, gang participation and other associated firearm and vehicle code violations.
BPD officers conducted a vehicle code enforcement stop on a vehicle in the 2200 block of College Avenue and observed a firearm in the vehicle in plain sight, according to a BPD news release.
Travon Cook, 34, of Bakersfield was arrested without incident.
While searching his vehicle, officers recovered three firearms, which Cook could not legally possess, as well as cocaine and fentanyl pills disguised as prescription medication.