California state senator cited for suspicion of impaired driving, says she wasn't intoxicated

A California authorities legislator has been cited connected suspicion of driving nether the influence

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A California authorities lawmaker denied having immoderate intoxicant and drugs successful her strategy aft Sacramento constabulary cited her earlier this week connected suspicion of driving nether the influence.

Sacramento constabulary responded astatine astir 1:30 p.m. Monday to a study of a conveyance clang involving authorities Sen. Sabrina Cervantes, section spokesperson Allison Smith said. Cervantes was taken by a backstage enactment to a infirmary and treated for insignificant injuries, Smith said.

Smith said officers besides went to the infirmary arsenic portion of their probe into the incident. They observed “objective signs of intoxication” and issued her a citation for suspicion of DUI, she said. The section aboriginal specified they believed Cervantes to beryllium nether the power of drugs, not alcohol. Police did not behaviour a breathalyzer test, Smith said.

Cervantes, a Democrat representing portion of the Inland Empire, claims nary wrongdoing. She said she was seeking attraction successful an exigency country aft a car struck her vehicle. She was past “accosted” by Sacramento constabulary officers, who accused her of driving nether the power and detained her for respective hours, she said.

Cervantes was elected to the authorities Senate past twelvemonth aft years serving successful the Assembly. She antecedently chaired the Latino Legislative Caucus.

Cervantes said laboratory results she sought successful the infirmary showed she did not person intoxicant oregon drugs successful her system.

“This ordeal was profoundly distressing and near maine adjacent much shaken," Cervantes said successful a statement. “As a Senator, wife, and mother, I clasp myself to the highest modular and expect others that service our communities to bash the same.”

The incident, which was archetypal reported by Politico, follows respective incidents successful caller years successful which a Democratic authorities lawmaker successful California has been suspected of driving drunk by section authorities. U.S. Rep. Dave Min, who was a authorities legislator astatine the time, and then-Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo were arrested successful separate incidents successful 2023 for driving nether the influence. Both admitted wrongdoing.

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This communicative has been updated to close that Sacramento constabulary believed Cervantes to beryllium nether the power of drugs, not alcohol.

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