{"id":313766,"date":"2026-05-13T15:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/313766\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:04:07","slug":"ex-gubernatorial-candidate-stephen-cloobeck-arrested-in-los-angeles-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/313766\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-gubernatorial candidate Stephen Cloobeck arrested in Los Angeles County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Real estate developer and former gubernatorial candidate Stephen Cloobeck, who exited the race in November, was arrested in Los Angeles County on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Jail records show Cloobeck, 64, was arrested before 11 a.m. and booked at the West Hollywood station on $300,000 bail, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department jail booking records.<\/p>\n

He was freed at 1:17 p.m. that afternoon, according to jail records.<\/p>\n

He was arrested on suspicion of attempting to prevent or dissuade a witness from testifying, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department. <\/p>\n

For a short time, Cloobeck was among the crowded field running for state governor.<\/p>\n

But he bowed out in November<\/a>, announcing on CNN he was throwing his support behind then-Congressman Eric Swalwell.<\/p>\n

It was the philanthropist\u2019s first-ever political campaign, which he funded through a fortune amassed in the real estate industry. In a UC Berkeley poll co-sponsored by The Times last fall, Cloobeck received less than half of 1% of the support of registered voters.<\/p>\n

Cloobeck said he had launched his run because he could not find a single qualified candidate \u2014 until he endorsed Swalwell.<\/p>\n

Swalwell exited the race<\/a> and resigned from Congress amid a sex scandal last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real estate developer and former gubernatorial candidate Stephen Cloobeck, who exited the race in November, was arrested in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1023,131375,131376,42753,48,52,51,47,137,50,49,11053,40773,131379,2211,4190,38105,131377,131378,68,1522],"class_list":["post-313766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-afternoon","tag-cloobeck","tag-ex-gubernatorial-candidate-stephen-cloobeck","tag-jail-record","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-november","tag-philanthropist","tag-philantrhopist","tag-race","tag-support","tag-swalwell","tag-then-congressman-eric-swalwell","tag-times-last-fall","tag-tuesday","tag-voter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313766","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=313766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}