Six Bakersfield men arrested during a child sex sting
18 other individuals on a variety of other charges
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and last updated 2021-06-28 16:31:28-04
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) â On Monday, the Bakersfield Police Department announced the arrest of six men as part of an online sex sting involving the solicitation of juveniles for sex.
According to the BPD, undercover detectives posed as juveniles online and were contacted by several men. Those men began engaging in inappropriate communication with the undercover detectives and requested to meet the juveniles for the purpose of sex. Detectives arranged to meet the men, who were then arrested for unlawful communication with a minor, and solicitation of a minor for sex.
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BAKERSFIELD â Bakersfield Police Department launched an extensive series of warrants and a search with in the first five days after assuming the lead in searching for two boys who went missing in California City in December.
Bakersfield PD announced its new role as the lead agency on March 1 from the California City Police Department. CCPD had acted as the lead agency for seven weeks since the disappearance of 3-year-old Orson and 4-year-old Orrin West on Dec. 21, 2020.
The two toddlers were reported missing by their adoptive parents Trezzel and Jacqueline West from their Aspen Avenue home. Trezell West had stated the two boys were playing on the back patio while he was collecting firewood from adjacent field; when he returned outside, he had told police they were missing.
Family of missing toddlers speaks out, says they’re public targets
West/Watkins FamilyBy ZOHREEN SHAH and SABINA GHEBREMEDHIN, ABC News
An urgent search for two missing California City, California, toddlers missing since Dec. 21, 2020, continues.
“I just know they were really good parents as far as I’m concerned,” Wanda West, the grandmother of the toddlers said about the children’s adoptive parents in an exclusive interview with ABC News Saturday.
Brothers Orson and Orrin West ages 3 and 4, respectively, were reported missing by their adoptive parents, Trezell and Jacqueline West.
“We offered a reward out of our own pockets,” the missing boys’ uncle, Jamal Watkins, told ABC News.
Family of toddlers missing since December speaks out, says they re public targets
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and last updated 2021-02-07 10:49:30-05 I just know they were really good parents as far as I m concerned, Wanda West, the grandmother of the toddlers said about the children s adoptive parents in an exclusive interview with ABC News Saturday.
Brothers Orson and Orrin West ages 3 and 4, respectively, were reported missing by their adoptive parents, Trezell and Jacqueline West. We offered a reward out of our own pockets, the missing boys uncle, Jamal Watkins, told ABC News.
That reward, initially offered at $30,000 by extended members of the West family, has increased to $120,000 contributed by multiple parties.