From the August 21, 2020 Edition
This is a log of law enforcement activity by the Kern County Sheriff’s Frazier Park substation. We report public records here. Listing here is not a report of a conviction. Those named have not yet …
From the August 14, 2020 Edition
By Gary Meyer, TME
In July, as covid-19 infections were spreading through federal immigration detention centers around the country, officials at the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center in Bakersfield—a private, for-profit prison run by The …
From the August 14, 2020 Edition
By Gary Meyer, TME
Fifteen men, including a CHP officer and a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) employee, were arrested in an undercover operation by Kern County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO) Special Victims Unit …
From the August 14, 2020 Edition
By Gary Meyer, TME
Two disgraced former Kern County Sheriff’s Office deputies pled no contest on Thursday, Aug. 6, to charges surrounding the theft of marijuana from a sheriff’s office property room in 2015.
Kern …
From the July 31, 2020 Edition
By Gary Meyer, TME
Friends and family of Cain Arteaga, 32, are grieving this week. His body was found Monday, July 20, in the California Aqueduct, but not immediately identified. He was a former U.S. …
From the July 24, 2020 Edition
By Gary Meyer with reporting by Shaina Della Rocco, TME
California Department of Water Resources workers discovered a body on Monday, July 20, at about 9 a.m. in the aqueduct, south of State Route (Highway) …
From the July 10, 2020 Edition
This is a log of law enforcement activity by the Kern County Sheriff’s Frazier Park substation. We report public records here. Listing here is not a report of a conviction. Those named have not yet …
From the June 26, 2020 Edition
Note from the Editor:
The Sheriff’s Log was established decades ago to provide public records to our community about local law enforcement activities.
When the coronavirus pandemic struck this year, Sheriff Donny Youngblood’s department went …
From the June 19, 2020 Edition
This is a log of law enforcement activity by the Kern County Sheriff’s Frazier Park substation. We report public records here. Listing here is not a report of a conviction. Those named have not yet …
From the May 22, 2020 Edition
By Patric Hedlund, TME
Concerned citizen Chandra Mead of Lebec came upon this scene [at left] in the 2500 block of Lebec Road, Lebec, at about 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 17.
It appeared …