BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The Bakersfield Police Department was first on the scene when Anthony Searles-Harris entered the Chase Bank building on Chester Avenue and began a dangerous 15-hour standoff with multiple hostages.
Bakersfield police negotiators were face-to-face with him for more than 10 hours in the building.
Multiple lives would be changed forever when Searles-Harris, an ex-convict and registered sex offender, entered the chase bank building downtown reportedly with a bomb strapped to his chest.
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He took 10 hostages, tied up five of them, and placed other suspected explosives on hostages…