{"id":273371,"date":"2026-04-17T23:48:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/273371\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T23:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:48:06","slug":"hearing-delayed-for-bakersfield-officer-facing-child-exploitation-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/273371\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing delayed for Bakersfield officer facing child exploitation charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 A federal district court in Fresno continued a hearing to June 10 for a Bakersfield police officer charged with sexual exploitation of a minor and receiving child pornography.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Marc Lugo was slated for a status conference on April 22. However, defense attorney David Torres successfully won a continuance, citing the need for more time to review evidence and weigh whether to file a motion to suppress key materials.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office is prosecuting Lugo on federal charges.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, Lugo encouraged a 15-year-old girl in South Carolina to send him sexually explicit material online in 2023. Lugo allegedly gave her instructions on how to pose.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 A federal district court in Fresno continued a hearing to June 10 for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,155,153,152,118479,33661,22789,7337,118480,162,25624,27933],"class_list":["post-273371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-downtown","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bakersfield-police-officer","tag-child-exploitation","tag-david-torres","tag-federal-court","tag-fresno-district-court","tag-kern-county-news","tag-marc-lugo","tag-u-s-attorneys-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273371","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=273371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}