{"id":53366,"date":"2025-11-14T19:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/53366\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T19:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:36:07","slug":"missing-bakersfield-man-found-in-shafter-canal-cause-and-manner-of-death-inconclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/53366\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Bakersfield man found in Shafter canal, cause and manner of death inconclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A man who was <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/bakersfield-police-seek-publics-help-in-finding-missing-30-year-old-man\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported missing back in June<\/a> by the Bakersfield Police Department has been identified by the Kern County coroner.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Vincent Varela, 30, of Bakersfield, was found dead in the North Kern Water District Canal in Shafter on May 28, 2025. Deputies found him at 5:52 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy was conducted, but the cause and manner of death could not be determined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A man who was reported missing back in June by the Bakersfield Police Department has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-53366","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\/53366","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=53366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}