{"id":381749,"date":"2026-07-01T05:09:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T05:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/381749\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T05:09:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T05:09:36","slug":"bakersfield-police-seeking-help-locating-man-last-seen-taft-highway-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/381749\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield police seeking help locating man last seen Taft Highway on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department is seeking the public&#8217;s help in locating a man who was last seen on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Law enforcement said that 61-year-old John Luis was last seen on June 25 around 10 p.m., on the 1500 block of Taft Highway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Luis is considered &#8220;at-risk&#8221; due to a medical condition.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"263\" height=\"354\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/kget_bakersfield_articles_800\/3975959b358f11c287f191121624f7db.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BPD is describing Luis as being 5 feet and 10 inches tall, about 155 pounds and balding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He has black and white hair, brown eyes and was wearing a gray long sleeve shirt, blue jeans and sandals when he was last seen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information about the case or Luis&#8217; whereabouts is encouraged to contact the Bakersfield Police Department at 661-327-7111.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department is seeking the public&#8217;s help in locating a man who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,324,154234,60632],"class_list":["post-381749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bakersfield-police-department","tag-john-luis","tag-taft-highway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381749","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=381749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}