{"id":45145,"date":"2025-11-09T09:31:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T09:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/45145\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T09:31:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T09:31:34","slug":"woman-who-removed-u-s-flag-at-hart-park-seeks-mental-health-diversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/45145\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman who removed U.S. flag at Hart Park seeks mental health diversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 A woman accused of vandalizing the U.S. flag at the entrance to Hart Park is seeking mental health diversion, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Crystal Aguilar has a hearing scheduled Dec. 4 to determine her eligibility for the diversion program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If she\u2019s allowed into and successfully completes the program \u2014 and stays out of trouble \u2014 the case would be dismissed<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Aguilar, 25, is\u00a0charged with a felony count of resisting arrest, two misdemeanor counts of resisting arrest, vandalism and battery on a peace officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Park rangers encountered Aguilar around 9:30 a.m. on Feb. 6. She had removed the U.S. flag at Hart Park and raised the Mexican flag in its place, according to sheriff\u2019s officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The sheriff\u2019s office released a video on YouTube that captured a portion of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IHD44y8evJI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:incident and her arrest;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">incident and her arrest<\/a>, during which she made threats to kill rangers and their families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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 href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" 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\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 A woman accused of vandalizing the U.S. flag at the entrance to Hart Park&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,29805,731,29806,29807,8347],"class_list":["post-45145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-crystal-aguilar","tag-diversion-program","tag-hart-park","tag-park-rangers","tag-resisting-arrest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45145","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=45145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}