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With sharp questions about information missing from a key police report, a defense attorney sowed doubt Thursday about a California City police officer’s investigation of the December 2020 disappearance of two toddlers. Attorney Alekxia Torres Stallings, representing the toddlers’ adoptive mother, Jacqueline West, worked to poke holes in California...

Defense attorney attacks officer’s police report about missing Cal City boys investigation

In a two hour video played in court Wednesday, police confronted the father of two missing California City boys about alleged contradictions relating to their disappearance. This nearly two-hour video was played in the murder trial of Trezell and Jacqueline West, who are accused of killing Orrin West, 4, and his brother Orson, 3. Both adoptive parents have pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter, conspiracy, willful cruelty to a child and falsely reporting an emergency.

Video shows police confronting adoptive father over conflicting accounts of Cal City toddlers’ disappearance

A woman reported missing Monday by the Bakersfield Police Department has been found, according to a news release issued Friday. Kimberly Smartt had last been seen March 22 in the 600 block of Townsley Avenue.

Woman previously reported missing has been found

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Letter to the editor: Supervisors choose the dime

As I watched the Kern County Board of Supervisors meeting last week, I immediately knew the...

Letter to the editor: Supervisors choose the dime

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