{"id":362474,"date":"2026-06-16T06:51:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T06:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/362474\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T06:51:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T06:51:23","slug":"newly-released-police-documents-detail-dui-arrest-of-former-kern-county-da-ed-jagels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/362474\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly released police documents detail DUI arrest of former Kern County DA Ed Jagels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Newly released police documents are providing new details about the DUI arrest of former Kern County District Attorney Edward Jagels, 77.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/former-kern-county-da-ed-jagels-arrested-on-alleged-dui-records-jail-stockdale-highway-bakersfield-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RELATED: Former Kern County DA Ed Jagels arrested on alleged DUI: Records<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the report, officers were called around 4:30 p.m. on June 1 to the area of Stockdale Highway and Calloway Drive after receiving reports of a driver passed out behind the wheel. Police said the driver was later seen swerving through traffic and hitting the center median multiple times.<\/p>\n<p>Officers pulled over Jagels and said he had bloodshot eyes, slurred speech and the odor of alcohol on his breath. A breath test reportedly showed a blood-alcohol content of 0.153%, nearly double the legal limit.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Jagels was arrested and booked into the Kern County Jail on misdemeanor charges. <\/p>\n<p>His bail was set at $10,000. Jagels is no longer listed as in custody. <\/p>\n<p>The Tulare County District Attorney&#8217;s Office stated it will handle Jagels&#8217; case to avoid any conflict of interest. They stated that no criminal charges have been filed yet, as lab tests are pending.<\/p>\n<p>Jagels is due in court on July 28, said the Tulare DA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Newly released police documents are providing new details about the DUI arrest of former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-362474","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\/362474","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=362474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}