{"id":415708,"date":"2026-07-28T21:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/415708\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T21:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:58:13","slug":"former-kern-da-jagels-pleads-not-guilty-to-dui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/415708\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Kern DA Jagels pleads not guilty to DUI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Kern County District Attorney Ed Jagels pleaded not guilty to driving under the influence on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Jagels did not attend his arraignment on Tuesday, per a report from the Bakersfield Californian, his attorney entered the not guilty plea to two misdemeanor counts, which included enhancements for his blood-alcohol levels.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Driving the news: Bakersfield police arrested Jagels, 77, on June 1 on the 6000 block of Stockdale Highway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Per the police report, Jagels veered his 2018 Model X Tesla into the median around 4:35 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers pulled Jagels over and observed slurred speech and other signs that he was under the influence of alcohol.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jagels\u2019s blood alcohol concentration was measured at 0.153%, which is nearly double the legal limit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">State of play: Jagels is the longest-serving district attorney in Kern County history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was first elected in 1982 and served until his retirement in 2010.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Due to his close relationship with District Attorney Cynthia Zimmer, the Tulare County District Attorney\u2019s Office is handling the case.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Kern County District Attorney Ed Jagels pleaded not guilty to driving under the influence on Tuesday.\u00a0 While&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-415708","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\/415708","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=415708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}