Fresno City Council candidate Naindeep Singh was arrested for a drug-related DUI, a law enforcement source told The Sun.\u00a0<\/p>\n
City Attorney Andrew Janz confirmed the arrest to independent reporter David Taub.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The big picture: Singh was arrested in the Tower District in the late hours of Saturday or early Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Janz confirmed that Singh was arrested for driving under the influence of a substance and taken to Community Regional Medical Center in downtown Fresno for blood testing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Singh was released to a family member and not booked into the county jail.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Taub reported that Singh is still awaiting the test results, as of Sunday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What they\u2019re saying: \u201cI can confirm at this time that my office has been notified that a Naindeep Chann Singh was arrested and taken into custody for driving under the influence of a substance last night near the Tower District. He was transported to a local hospital for testing. I will defer all further questions to Fresno Police who are investigating this alleged offense,\u201d Janz told Taub.<\/p>\n
The Fresno Police Department did not respond to a request for comment from The Sun.\u00a0<\/p>\n
State of the race: Singh is running for the city council in district 1 against State Center Community College District Trustee Rob Fuentes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Singh, a Central Unified School District Trustee, secured the most votes in the June primary at 38.69% and advanced to the November runoff along with Fuentes, who had 36.52% of the vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresno City Council candidate Naindeep Singh was arrested for a drug-related DUI, a law enforcement source told The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-508140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508140","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=508140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}