17 News @ Sunrise 03/26/2024

Some of today's top storiesa disturbing eyewitness account of a man seen on video walking around with a severed body part from a train crash. It happened last Friday in Wasco. Witnesses tell us, 27-year-old Resendo Tellez is the man seen in this video carrying around a severed leg... and accuse him of biting into it. That body part... belonging to a victim hit and killed by a train at the Wasco Amtrak Station.  Before the incident, Tellez was seen in security footage shared with 17 News... visiting a liquor store. He's the one in the orange shirt. Those who know Tellez say he is homeless, and describe him as ordinary and polite. A construction worker spoke to... tells us he was in the area when he saw Tellez carrying around the body part.Court records Tellez has at least a half dozen prior misdemeanor convictions... mostly for drug or alcohol-related offenses.  Tellez is scheduled for a court appearance Tuesday in Shafter.David Abbasi -- a candidate in this month's election for Kern County Supervisor -- was arrested for calling 9-1-1 too many times. Abbasi told 17 News he was booked into jail Sunday and released yesterday morning.    He said he was "falsely arrested and imprisoned."     Abbasi, who says he has asthma, explained that one of his business neighbors has consistently been smoking indoors, leading to the smoke creeping into his own unit.    He also says he had to go to the hospital for breathing treatment, and out of for fear of an asthma attack, he called 9-1-1 multiple times.Turning to an grim update on Kern County's fentanyl crisis.    Just days after the triumphant debut of his latest music documentary, investigators say local filmmaker Nate Berg died of a fentanyl overdose. Back in January... Berg was found down on the sidewalk in the middle of the night in downtown Bakersfield.     He had been ill with an undiagnosed respiratory illness – and some speculated he had Covid-19.    But yesterday afternoon the Kern County Coroner's Office made official of what some of those close to him had feared.    Berg died of acute Hydrocodone and fentanyl toxicity – an accidental overdose.    He is now one of the more than 900 people in Kern who have died from fentanyl-related overdoses in the past four years.The number of in-custody deaths is on the rise even as the number of incarcerated people continues to decline.    Kern County is among the counties setting an in-custody death record.     17's Mikhala Armstrong has more.