{"id":411240,"date":"2026-07-24T21:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/411240\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T21:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:28:07","slug":"coroner-confirms-methamphetamine-toxicity-killed-man-found-in-east-panama-lane-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/411240\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner confirms methamphetamine toxicity killed man found in East Panama Lane field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified the cause and manner of death for the<a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/kern-county-coroner-identifies-48-year-old-bakersfield-man-found-dead-in-dirt-field-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> man who was found dead in an open dirt field.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RELATED:<a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/kern-county-coroner-identifies-48-year-old-bakersfield-man-found-dead-in-dirt-field-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Kern County Coroner identifies 48-year-old Bakersfield man found dead in dirt field<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office said on June 20, 2026, at around 3:12 p.m., 48-year-old Geraldo Ramirez of Bakersfield was found dead in a dirt field north of the 5700 block of East Panama Lane in Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy was conducted and the cause of death was determined to be methamphetamine toxicity.<\/p>\n<p>The manner of death is accident, according to the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner\u2019s Office has identified the cause and manner of death for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-411240","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\/411240","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=411240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}