HomeMy WebLinkAbout2012_02_08_Arrests Near Bakersfield College
BAKERSFIELD POLICE
DEPARTMENT
PRESS RELEASE
Greg Williamson, Chief of Police
For Immediate Release February 8, 2011
On 2/8/12, at about 9:20 a.m., a Bakersfield College Public Safety officer observed Frankie Lee Jones 46, looking
under the hood of a Honda which was parked on Mt. Vernon Avenue, adjacent to the campus. The officer was
familiar with the thefts the previous day and this activity was consistent. Jones walked away from the vehicle and
continued south on Mt. Vernon Avenue to the area of Christmas Tree Lane and Noel Place where two Bakersfield
College Public Safety officers detained him. Bakersfield Police responded and Frankie Lee Jones was found to be in
possession of a firearm which was determined to have been taken in a prior local vehicle burglary. Jones was
arrested for ex-felon in possession of a firearm, possession of stolen property, possession of burglary tools and
outstanding arrest warrants for robbery, possession of drugs for sale and failure to appear in court. The Honda Jones
was tampering with was also determined to be stolen. Jones was booked into the Kern County Jail.
On 2/8/12, at about 12:05 p.m., a Bakersfield College student reported two suspicious subjects in a grey Honda
Accord who were prowling in the parking lot and who were specifically looking at other Hondas. A Bakersfield Police
officer arrived as the subjects were leaving. When the officer attempted to affect a traffic stop, the driver led officers
on a short pursuit to the 2900 block of Cardinal Avenue where the vehicle went off the roadway and both the driver
and passenger ran. Officers apprehended both suspects a short distance away. The Honda was determined to
stolen from a neighborhood east of the college and the two were also responsible for a second stolen Honda from the
same neighborhood. When the two were spotted by the college student, they had already committed vehicle
burglaries on the campus and were in the process of looking for additional vehicles to burglarize. The two suspects,
both males, ages 16 and 17, were arrested for 2 counts of auto theft, possession of stolen property, possession of
burglary tools, conspiracy and resisting arrest.
Neither Jones nor the two juveniles have been linked to the auto thefts on campus on 2/6/12, as of yet.
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