{"id":181384,"date":"2026-02-17T12:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/181384\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:14:10","slug":"california-high-speed-rail-authority-ceo-arrested-this-month-on-suspicion-of-domestic-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/181384\/","title":{"rendered":"California High-Speed Rail Authority CEO arrested this month on suspicion of domestic battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The CEO of California HIgh-Speed Rail Authority, Ian Choudri, was arrested at his Folsom home this month on suspicion of domestic battery, according to news reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The arrest, first reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/article\/california-high-speed-rail-authority-ceo-ian-choudri-arrested-for-domestic-violence-folsom\/70386560\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:KCRA;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">KCRA<\/a>, took place Feb. 4, the day after Choudri appeared at a public event with Gov. Gavin Newsom to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2026\/02\/03\/governor-newsom-announces-major-high-speed-rail-milestone-track-installation-to-begin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:celebrate;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">celebrate<\/a> the completion of a railhead facility in Kern County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Choudri, 57, was arrested just after midnight following a domestic disturbance call to the home, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/politics-government\/capitol-alert\/article314724555.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sacramento Bee;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sacramento Bee<\/a>, citing Folsom police logs. Officers took Choudri into custody on suspicion of battery of a spouse, a misdemeanor, The Bee reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The California High-Speed Rail Authority on Monday night said that it was reviewing the matter and did not have further comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Choudri&#8217;s attorney, Allen Sawyer, said the Sacramento District Attorney&#8217;s Office received an incident report from the Folsom Police Department and declined\u00a0to file charges against Choudri.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At the time of the arrest, Choudri was with his fiance, Sawyer said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/california\/article\/high-speed-rail-ceo-arrest-21357533.php?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=yahoo_syndication\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:California High-Speed Rail Authority CEO arrested this month on suspicion of domestic battery;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">California High-Speed Rail Authority CEO arrested this month on suspicion of domestic battery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The CEO of California HIgh-Speed Rail Authority, Ian Choudri, was arrested at his Folsom home this month on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,25432,8,85858,52969,457,34569],"class_list":["post-181384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-high-speed-rail-authority","tag-california-news","tag-domestic-battery","tag-folsom-police-department","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-ian-choudri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181384","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=181384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}