Two-hour response time for deputies to arrive in PMC worries residents

  • [photo by Patric Hedlund, The Mountain Enterprise]

    [photo by Patric Hedlund, The Mountain Enterprise]

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“Frazier Park…by the end of this budget year..may not have a substation.”
–Sheriff Donny Youngblood
July 26, 2016

By Patric Hedlund, TME

On Thursday, July 21 at about 10:30 p.m. a call was made to the Kern County Sheriff’s Office about an allegedly inebriated man whose car had been damaged near the corner of Aleutian Drive and Polar Way in the Pine Mountain community. He had driven into a tree, neighbors said. It was nearly two hours before a deputy responded.

Because Judson Birza, 27 appeared to be…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Lesley Brandenburg with husband Randy Heberle (a retired L.A. County sheriff); she spoke of starting a petition to protest Kern County’s budget cuts. Meanwhile, Sheriff Donny Youngblood told Kern County Supervisors Frazier Park may not have a substation by the end of the fiscal year.

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