NewsCrime

Actions

Bakersfield man sentenced for burglarizing 8 Post Offices

Gavel with Scales of Justice (FILE)
Posted

FRESNO, Calif. (KERO) — A 39-year-old Bakersfield man was sentenced Friday to more than two years in prison for burglarizing eight U.S. Post Offices, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of California.

Steven Martin, 39, of Bakersfield, burglarized eight different post offices in Kern, Kings, and Tulare counties in December 2018, according to court documents.

Martin stole cash registers, packages containing clothes and other mail as well as causing damage to the post offices, according to court documents. The total loss was estimated at $8,800.

Martin's sentence is for two and three months in prison.

The case was investigated by U.S. Postal Inspection Service.

,

Weather

Daily Forecast

View Hourly Forecast

Day

Conditions

HI / LO

Precip

Saturday

01/18/2025

Clear

-° / 37°

3%

Sunday

01/19/2025

Clear

63° / 37°

4%

Monday

01/20/2025

Clear

62° / 36°

1%

Tuesday

01/21/2025

Partly Cloudy

65° / 35°

0%

Wednesday

01/22/2025

Clear

61° / 37°

1%

Thursday

01/23/2025

Mostly Clear

71° / 40°

0%

Friday

01/24/2025

Partly Cloudy

70° / 39°

1%

Saturday

01/25/2025

Partly Cloudy

58° / 36°

17%