BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Fifteen people, including a California Highway Patrol officer and a prison employee, were arrested in connection with trying to meet minors to engage in sex acts after the sheriff’s office conducted an undercover ...

Michael Scott Cooper, 43, of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty today to possession of material involving the sexual exploitation of minors, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. According to the plea agreement, Cooper possessed images ...

Former Kern County firefighter and Tehachapi City Council member Daniel Shane Reed has been arrested again on sexual abuse charges. The Kern County Sheriff's Office says Reed, 41, met a 13-year-old boy and had sexual relations with him while he ...