{"id":133350,"date":"2026-01-14T15:47:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/133350\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T15:47:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:47:22","slug":"man-pleads-not-guilty-in-motel-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/133350\/","title":{"rendered":"Man pleads not guilty in motel stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 A man charged with first-degree murder in a deadly stabbing at a Bakersfield motel pleaded not guilty in his first court appearance Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Parra, 46, was arrested Sunday night without incident and is being held without bail.<\/p>\n<p>The Kern County Sheriff&#8217;s Office says Parra was arrested after a man was found with stab wounds at the Motel 6 on Olive Tree Court Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The victim is expected to be identified by the coroner&#8217;s office at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>Parra is set to appear in court for preliminary hearings on Jan. 26 and 27.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 A man charged with first-degree murder in a deadly stabbing at a Bakersfield motel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,155,153,152,67112,6295,162,43305,31529,67114,68238,3790],"class_list":{"0":"post-133350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-downtown","10":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","11":"tag-bakersfield-news","12":"tag-bakersfield-stabbing","13":"tag-first-degree-murder","14":"tag-kern-county-news","15":"tag-kern-county-sheriff","16":"tag-motel-6","17":"tag-olive-tree-court","18":"tag-paul-parra","19":"tag-preliminary-hearing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}