Top cop has identity stolen

• Concealed weapons permit violations rare, police say
  People who qualify for concealed weapon permits are generally the good guys, but once in a while they mess up. A recent example is a Bakersfield man who obtained a permit and three days later shot [...]
• Business owner charged with giving meth to teen
  The president of a Bakersfield business is charged with furnishing methamphetamine to a 17-year-old girl who then passed out from an overdose and had to be taken to the hospital. Kerry Hogeland, 5 [...]
• Man gets 16 years in fatal DUI wreck case
  A Bakersfield man with three drunken driving convictions has been sentenced to 16 years to life in prison for the traffic death of a woman in 2008. That crash was the second time Tommy Vincente Val [...]
• Woman accused of embezzling $200,000 from gun shop
  Of businesses to embezzle from, a gun dealer would seem to be low on the list. But the former bookkeeper for Second Amendment Sports is accused of stealing more than $200,000 from the Oildale busin [...]
• Dog attack caught on film
  Andy Castaneda could hear the man's screams from several houses away. By the time he and other neighbors in east Bakersfield arrived Tuesday afternoon, they saw 35-year-old Steven Herrera being att [...]