Crime

Shoplifters crash stolen car in Gorman

From the January 26, 2024 Edition

By Gary Meyer, TME

Stealing a car is rarely a good idea, but if you insist, it’s always a good idea to first learn to drive. 

Five Bakersfield youths (one an adult) crashed a stolen …

Pot grow houses busted in Pine Mountain Club

From the November 10, 2023 Edition

By Gary Meyer, TME Armed officers took down a number of marijuana grow houses in PMC on Wednesday, Nov. 1.

Photos sent to The Mountain Enterprise show officers who were not Kern County Sheriff’s deputies …

Felony evading suspect skips $42,500 bail

From the October 6, 2023 Edition

By Gary Meyer, TME Robert Chance Jensen (24), noted by Kern County Sheriff’s Office as a transient of Frazier Park, has forfeited his bail by failing to appear for a pre-preliminary hearing on Thursday, Sept. …

Stolen items found on RV/UHaul property

From the August 4, 2023 Edition

By Gary Meyer, TME

On Wednesday, July 26, Kern County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the 800 block of Louise Way in Los Padres Estates to investigate a report of items that had been stolen …

REWARD OFFERED related to burglary at Sue’s Tavern

From the July 21, 2023 Edition

By Gary Meyer, TME

The surveillance video time-stamp said July 12 at 12:50 a.m.—the wee hours of Wednesday morning, last week.

Anyone who may have seen anything happening at Sue’s Tavern around that time is …

Shots fired in Tejon Pass, two injured, two arrested

From the March 31, 2023 Edition

By Gary Meyer, TME

On Monday, March 27, at about 7 p.m., California Highway Patrol units were in pursuit of a stolen Honda Civic on southbound I-5 near Highway 166 and called off the pursuit …