{"id":508382,"date":"2026-10-26T13:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T13:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/508382\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T13:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T13:22:11","slug":"fresno-city-council-candidate-naindeep-singh-arrested-on-suspicion-of-dui-police-confirm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/508382\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno City Council candidate Naindeep Singh arrested on suspicion of DUI, police confirm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have confirmed that Fresno City Council District 1 candidate Naindeep Singh was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of a drug.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793020931_162_origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Monday, October 26, 2026 12:33PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Police have confirmed that Fresno City Council District 1 candidate Naindeep Singh was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of a drug.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers are waiting for toxicology results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Multiple sources tell Action News the arrest happened in the Tower District October 24 and say Singh was cited and released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Action News is still working to confirm additional details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Singh is also a member of the Central Unified School Board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">We have reached out to Singh, but have not received a response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The campaign for Singh&#8217;s opponent, Rob Fuentes, released a statement, saying in part, &#8221;Naindeep Singh must answer for this incident and the questions it raises about his judgment. Step one: he should immediately withdraw from the race for city council.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">This is a developing story. Stay with Action News for updates.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have confirmed that Fresno City Council District 1 candidate Naindeep Singh was arrested on suspicion of driving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[196156,196155,25725,112,8019,114,113,141584,294],"class_list":["post-508382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-196156","tag-district-1-candidate","tag-dui-arrest","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-city-council","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-naindeep-singh","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508382","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=508382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}