{"id":31011,"date":"2025-10-30T23:55:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T23:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/31011\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T23:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T23:55:06","slug":"bakersfield-detective-in-court-on-federal-charges-for-sexual-exploitation-of-a-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/31011\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield detective in court on federal charges for sexual exploitation of a minor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX)  \u2014 Bakersfield Police Department Detective Marc Lugo was in the Bakersfield Federal Courthouse on Thursday on federal charges of sexual exploitation of a minor.<\/p>\n<p>Lugo, 35, was <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/bpd-officer-arrested-for-allegedly-contacting-15-year-old-girl-to-commit-sexual-offense-bakersfield-police-department-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">arrested in May<\/a> after allegedly contacting a 15-year-old girl from South Carolina on Instagram to commit a sexual offense.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/bpd-officer-arrested-for-allegedly-contacting-15-year-old-girl-to-commit-sexual-offense-bakersfield-police-department-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BPD detective arrested for allegedly contacting 15-year-old girl to commit sexual offense<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Kern County Sheriff&#8217;s Office made the initial arrest but said on Wednesday, October 29, 2025, that the case was eventually referred to a Federal agency for prosecution due to the charges submitted. It&#8217;s unclear when the case was handed off to federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>Lugo is a 13-year veteran of the Bakersfield Police Department and is currently on administrative leave.<\/p>\n<p>A federal detention hearing is set for next Tuesday, November 4, and a preliminary hearing is set for November 13.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted, Lugo could face up to 30 years in a federal prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Bakersfield Police Department Detective Marc Lugo was in the Bakersfield Federal Courthouse on Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-31011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31011","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=31011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}