D.A.’s Wife Lied to Get Drugs on Court Plea Day
On the same day that Bryanna Jagels pleaded no contest to drug and prescription fraud charges and expressed relief that she would avoid jail time, she lied to get prescription drugs, court documents show.
The estranged wife of Kern County Dist. Atty. Ed Jagels was enrolled by her attorney in a secure drug treatment facility after documents had been filed in court this week.
She “poses a real and significant risk to herself and to society,” Michael P. Farrell, the deputy attorney general, told the Bakersfield Californian.
Farrell added that he would ask a judge today to increase bail and to order that Bryanna Jagels receive treatment in a secure in-house facility.
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