(FOX40.COM) — All charges against celebrity chef Adam Pechal have been dropped due to “insufficient evidence,” Sacramento County prosecutors confirmed Friday afternoon.
Pechal was arrested and booked for felony domestic violence after the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office received a call Wednesday night from his partner. Sgt. Edward Igoe said the woman told deputies Pechal had physically assaulted her.
However, the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office declined to file any charges against Pechal after reviewing the case, a prosecutor told FOX40.
Sonia Martinez Satchell, an assistant chief deputy district attorney, said in an email that “it was determined there was insufficient evidence to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt.”
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Pechal came to fame in 2013 when he appeared on Season 1 of ABC’s “The Taste,” a cooking competition show hosted by the late Anthony Bourdain.
Locally, Pechal was known as the chef behind Tuli Bistro and Restaurant Thir13en, now-closed restaurants in Midtown and Downtown Sacramento. Most recently, he created the menu for Local Flights LLC, a new restaurant in the Sacramento International Airport.
The Sacramento Bee, which first reported the arrest, noted that social media posts show Pechal “now operates as a private chef, largely for private events and Sacramento Kings athletes, along with work as a consultant and educator.”
Pechal could not immediately be reached for comment Friday afternoon.
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