BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A man was arrested in connection to an armed robbery that occurred at a gas station in McFarland on March 17.
Officers responded to a report of an armed robbery at around 5:29 a.m. at the McFarland Gas Station in the 200 block of West Elmo Highway, according to the McFarland Police Department. Investigators identified the suspect as David Jose Rubio and found out he lived in Earlimart.
McFarland police served a search warrant at a home in the 700 block of East Kovacevich Street in Earlimart. Rubio tried to flee but was found hiding in the backyard of a nearby home, police said…