{"id":181089,"date":"2026-02-17T05:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T05:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/181089\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T05:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T05:54:08","slug":"california-high-speed-rail-ceo-arrested-in-folsom-on-suspicion-of-domestic-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/181089\/","title":{"rendered":"California High-Speed Rail CEO arrested in Folsom on suspicion of domestic battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO of the California High-Speed Rail Authority was arrested earlier this month in Folsom on suspicion of domestic battery, officials said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ian-choudri.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"ian-choudri.jpg \" height=\"853\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Ian Choudri<\/p>\n<p>                California High Speed Rail Authority<\/p>\n<p>The Folsom Police Department said Ian Choudri, 57, was taken into custody on February 4. The arrest took place in the 500 block of Borges Court.<\/p>\n<p>While police confirmed the booking, additional details regarding the specific circumstances of the incident have not been released.<\/p>\n<p>The California High-Speed Rail Authority issued a brief statement following the announcement of the arrest, noting that it was &#8220;aware of the matter and is reviewing it.&#8221; The agency declined to comment further.<\/p>\n<p>Choudri, a veteran of the transportation and construction industry, was appointed to lead the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/state-leaders-announce-changes-california-high-speed-rail-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">high-speed rail project<\/a> in August 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The CEO of the California High-Speed Rail Authority was arrested earlier this month in Folsom on suspicion of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[7,121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-181089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-sacramento","10":"tag-sacramento-headlines","11":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181089","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=181089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}