Due to an increase of equipment theft, the Kern County Sheriff’s Office Rural Crime Investigation Unit placed a piece of equipment under electronic surveillance inside an equipment yard near the area of South Vineland Road and Panama Road in Lamont.
On January 27, 2020, Rural Crime Detectives were notified the equipment had been stolen. Detectives, along with deputies from the Lamont Substation, tracked the equipment to the 11000 block of South Vineland Road in Lamont. Detectives arrested 59-year-old Jose Martinez-Guadalupe of Lamont for PC 487(a), Grand Theft, and PC 496(a) Possession of Stolen Property. Martinez-Guadalupe was transported and booked into the Central Receiving Facility.
Anyone with information on this investigation is asked to contact the Kern County Sheriff’s Office Rural Crime Investigation Unit at 661-392-6071.
