{"id":52101,"date":"2025-11-14T00:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T00:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/52101\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T00:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T00:23:14","slug":"bpd-detective-remains-free-as-he-pleads-not-guilty-on-federal-child-sex-crime-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/52101\/","title":{"rendered":"BPD detective remains free as he pleads not guilty on federal child sex crime charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX)  \u2014 Bakersfield police detective Marc Lugo pleaded not guilty to federal charges of sexual exploitation of a minor in federal court on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Lugo, 36, was <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/bpd-officer-arrested-for-allegedly-contacting-15-year-old-girl-to-commit-sexual-offense-bakersfield-police-department-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">arrested back in May<\/a>, after federal investigators alleged he contacted a 15-year-old girl from South Carolina on Instagram with the intent to commit a sexual offense.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/send-me-a-picture-disturbing-new-details-in-child-sex-crimes-case-against-bpd-detective-federal-crime-homeland-security-united-states-marshals-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;Send me a picture:&#8221; Disturbing new details in child sex crimes case against BPD detective<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He appeared on Thursday afternoon at the federal courthouse in downtown Bakersfield for his arraignment and remained out of custody on a personal recognizance bond. A judge granted his release earlier this week after rejecting a request from the U.S. attorney\u2019s office to keep him detained.<\/p>\n<p>Lugo, who is currently on administrative leave, is still employed by the Bakersfield Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>He is scheduled to return to federal court in Fresno on January 28 for a status conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Bakersfield police detective Marc Lugo pleaded not guilty to federal charges of sexual exploitation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-52101","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\/52101","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=52101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}