Receive alerts from your local agencies
...or text your ZIP CODE to 888777 for mobile alerts

Full Notification

Kern County Sheriff's Office - Public Information Officer
Tuesday May 19th, 2020 :: 08:48 a.m. PDT

Advisory

**Update***KCSO deputies arrest suspects for carjacking

**Update**
The victims vehicle was located, unoccupied, in the Oildale area.  It was returned to the victim.  The Kern County Sheriff's Office would like to thank the public for their assistance in locating the vehicle.

On May 18, 2020, at 1:45am, the Kern County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a carjacking in the 100 block of E. Roberts Ln.  The 66-year-old victim told deputies he was sleeping inside of his vehicle when he was approached by several subjects wearing bandanas who brandished a handgun at him.  They took his vehicle from him and fled in it and an additional black Honda they arrived in. 
At approximately 2:15am, deputies located the black Honda at Lincoln Ave. and Oildale Dr.  The Honda was occupied by 3 suspects.  The suspects were detained and items from the victim’s vehicle were located in the Honda, along with bandanas and an airsoft revolver.  The Honda was determined to also be stolen.  The suspects in the Honda were identified as Johnny Villalovos (18 y/o), Brian Smith (22 y/o), and Chrystal Cullen (23 y/o).  The suspects were booked for carjacking, conspiracy, possession of a stolen vehicle and grand theft during a state of emergency.  Villalovos was also booked for possession of a controlled substance and Smith was booked for a misdemeanor warrant.
The victim’s vehicle is still outstanding.  It is a red 2002 Dodge Neon with California license 4YXE008.  Anyone with information on this case or the location of the victim’s vehicle is asked to call the Kern County Sheriff’s Office at 661-861-3110.
 

Address/Location
Kern County Sheriff's Office - Public Information Officer
1350 Norris Rd
Bakersfield, CA 93308

Contact
Emergency: 9-1-1
Non-emergencies: 661-861-3110

TEXT-A-TIP -  Text TIP SHERIFFPIO followed by your message, to 888777

Submit an anonymous web tip

Navigate & Discover