Two men suspected in fatal southeast Bakersfield shooting
A man died and another man was critically injured in a southeast Bakersfield shooting Saturday afternoon, the Bakersfield Police Department reported Monday.
Officers were called to the 300 block of Clifton Street around 2:14 p.m. and found a man who died at the scene and another man who was later taken to a hospital.
BPD is looking for two suspects. Those with information about this incident should call the BPD at 661-327-7111, Detective J. Dunn at 661-326-3557 or Kern Secret Witness at 661-322-4040.
An Arvin man was sentenced Monday to nine
years in prison for fraudulently claiming disability benefits from the California Employment Development Department and was ordered to pay back more than $3 million.
Javier Jimenez Alvarez and others made false claims to the EDD from 2010 to 2015 and got debit cards for their fake disabilities. They cashed in those benefits to get money and kept asking the EDD for “supplemental information” to add more benefits to the credit cards, said a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District.
Jimenez Alvarez was charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and laundering money.
A Bakersfield man was arrested Sunday in Fresno
on suspicion of driving drunk at a high speed and losing control of the vehicle, leading a 16-yearold passenger to die once he was ejected from the car while it overturned, the California Highway Patrol said Monday.
Erick Gonzalez Torres, 25, was driving a Toyota Tacoma with three people going west on Elkhorn Avenue, west of Jameson Avenue at a “high rate of speed” and drove off the road, a CHP news release said. The 16-year-old wasn’t wearing a seat belt and flew out of the car as it rolled many times, CHP wrote.
Torres and the other passengers — Arturo Rodriguez, 21, and Christian Bribesca, 19 — were treated at the scene for minor injuries and released. Torres was taken to the Community Regional Medical Center for minor injuries as well, the CHP noted.
The CHP arrested Torres in connection to felony vehicular manslaughter while driving intoxicated by alcohol.
A Delano man charged in a sprawling federal investi
gation that led to accusing 23 people with the Nuestra Familia prison gang and its associates of drug trafficking methamphetamine pleaded guilty Monday to drug distribution.
Operation Red Reaper also uncovered firearms offenses and violent crimes throughout Kings and Tulare counties. Federal authorities showed Ernesto Zibray, 34, distributed two pounds of meth to a co-defendant, Delano resident Tiffany Feller, in May 2019. After this transaction, investigators stopped Feller while she was driving and found meth while searching the car, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District.
Zibray — who was on probation for an unrelated offense when he reportedly gave meth to Feller — is scheduled to be sentenced May 22.
A 27-year-old man who was last seen Thursday was still
missing Monday, the Bakersfield Police Department confirmed.
Angelo Alora, 27, was last seen in the 5300 block of Lennox Avenue and is considered at risk because he has a developmental disability. The Filipino man is around 5 feet, 11 inches tall and weighs 150 pounds. He has black short hair and brown eyes.
Anyone who may have information to help BPD find Alora should call the department at 661-327-7111.
A Vista man who was driving on Highway 99 near
Panama Lane tried to brake his car Thursday while a pedestrian walked on roads filled with traffic but couldn’t stop in time and hit the man, who died, the California Highway Patrol wrote in a news release.
Hector Canton III was driving a 2023 BMV going north around 8:28 p.m. and hit the man who went flying into lanes headed south. The pedestrian, whose name has not been released, died at the scene, CHP wrote.
Drugs and alcohol did not impair Canton, but it’s unknown if the pedestrian was intoxicated, the CHP added.