Man barricades himself inside Southern California bank with hostages, police say ^13%

The Independent - By Via AP news wire - 6/3/2026, 12:50 AM

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A man barricaded himself inside a bank building in Bakersfield, California, with an unknown number of people on Tuesday, police said. Officers responded to a report of a bomb threat at around 1 p.m. at a Chase Bank in downtown Bakersfield, where they found that a man had locked himself inside the building with “several community... more