{"id":381165,"date":"2026-06-30T20:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/381165\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T20:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:55:09","slug":"bakersfield-police-seek-help-locating-missing-61-year-old-man-last-seen-on-taft-hwy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/381165\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield police seek help locating missing 61-year-old man last seen on Taft Hwy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department is asking for the community\u2019s help in finding a missing 61-year-old man.<\/p>\n<p>Police said John Luis was last seen on Thursday, June 25th, 2026, at about 10 p.m. in the 1500 block of Taft Highway, near South H Street.<\/p>\n<p>Luis is described as a White man, 5\u201910\u201d tall, 155 pounds, balding with black and white hair, and brown eyes. He was wearing a gray long-sleeve shirt, blue jeans, and sandals.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police said John Luis was last seen on Thursday, June 25th, 2026, at about 10 p.m. in the 1500 block of Taft Highway, near South H Street. PHOTO: BPD\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/32e90ba5-2e5d-4a99-9b2f-91da7f4096a5-UntitledAugust202025at10.44.4115.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police said John Luis was last seen on Thursday, June 25th, 2026, at about 10 p.m. in the 1500 block of Taft Highway, near South H Street. PHOTO: BPD<\/p>\n<p>He is considered at-risk due to medical conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to call the Bakersfield Police Department at (661) 327-7111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department is asking for the community\u2019s help in finding a missing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-381165","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\/381165","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=381165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}