{"id":512358,"date":"2026-10-29T23:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T23:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/512358\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T23:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T23:58:07","slug":"former-bakersfield-police-detective-rejects-plea-deal-in-child-exploitation-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/512358\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Bakersfield Police Detective rejects plea deal in child exploitation case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 A plea deal has been rejected for a former Bakersfield Police Detective accused of sexually exploiting a minor and receiving child pornography. <\/p>\n<p>Court records show Marc Lugo rejected the agreement Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The story dates back to May 2025, when Lugo was placed on administrative leave and later fired following his arrest on charges involving a minor and child pornography.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents allege Lugo used two Instagram accounts between September 2023 and April 2025 to contact a 15-year-old girl who lived outside of California, requesting nude photos and videos.<\/p>\n<p>After he was released from jail, a judge allowed Lugo to return home under the supervision of his wife, Heather Lugo, who also works as a detective with the Bakersfield Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.turnto23.com\/news\/in-your-neighborhood\/bakersfield\/one-year-later-fallout-from-bakersfield-detectives-arrest-continues\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">One Year Later: Fallout from Bakersfield Detective\u2019s arrest continues<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Claims filed against the city and county allege more than two dozen violations of state and federal laws, including due process violations, discrimination, workplace harassment and intimidation.<\/p>\n<p>He is scheduled to go to trial in May of next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 A plea deal has been rejected for a former Bakersfield Police Detective accused of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-512358","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\/512358","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=512358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}