California state Sen. Dave Min (D-Irvine), who’s working for Congress subsequent 12 months in a aggressive Orange County district, was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving and launched from Sacramento County jail Wednesday, in line with Sacramento Sheriff’s Division and California Freeway Patrol data.
Min confirmed the arrest in a social media submit that he was cited with a misdemeanor DUI.
“Final evening I used to be cited for a misdemeanor for driving beneath the affect,” Min wrote on Fb Wednesday. “My resolution to drive final evening was irresponsible. I settle for full duty and there’s no excuse for my actions. To my household, constituents and supporters, I’m so deeply sorry. I do know I must do higher. I cannot let this private failure distract from our work in California and in Washington.”
Min’s marketing campaign declined to reply further questions on the document.
CHP officers reported seeing a silver Toyota Camry late Tuesday evening touring south with out its headlights on not removed from the Capitol in Sacramento, in line with an arrest report that CHP supplied to The Occasions. The officers adopted the automotive to ninth Avenue and Broadway, the place they noticed the driving force “cease at a purple mild momentarily however then proceed into the intersection whereas the sunshine remained purple.” Officers then pulled Min over.
“The officers contacted the driving force of the car and seen indicators and signs of alcohol intoxication,” the report stated. “The officers performed a Driving Beneath the Affect [DUI] investigation and decided the driving force was driving beneath the affect of an alcoholic beverage.”
Officers arrested Min at 10:51 p.m. at Broadway and Riverside, in line with the report.
Min is working within the hotly contested forty seventh Congressional District at present represented by Rep. Katie Porter (D-Irvine), who’s searching for to interchange Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Min will face former Republican state Assemblyman Scott Baugh, Democrat Joanna Weiss and Republican Max Ukropina, amongst others, for the purple district seat that the GOP is pouring its vitality into flipping purple in 2024.
“I’m grateful that legislation enforcement was in a position to intervene and glad that nobody was harm. It’s extremely disappointing to see profession politicians behave this fashion whereas representing us in Sacramento. It’s yet one more reminder that Orange County deserves new management, which is why I’m working for Congress,” Ukropina stated in an announcement. Baugh and Weiss declined to remark.
The district contains Irvine, Huntington Seaside, Costa Mesa, Newport Seaside and Laguna Seaside. Porter narrowly defeated Baugh and received a 3rd time period in Congress with 51.7% of the vote final 12 months, in line with the California Secretary of State’s workplace. Porter endorsed Min instantly after he introduced his bid.
Min was elected to the state Senate in 2020 after beating an incumbent Republican representing a historically purple district. He’s centered his legislative consideration on passing new gun management legal guidelines and preventing local weather change. Min carried unsuccessful laws to ban offshore oil drilling after the 2021 oil spill in Huntington Seaside.
Min is a former UC Irvine legislation professor with an in depth background in banking and housing coverage.
Min isn’t the primary state legislator to be accused of driving drunk. In 2014, then-state Sen. Ben Hueso (D-San Diego) was arrested on suspicion of driving beneath the affect.
In 2012, then-Assemblyman Roger Hernandez (D-Covina) was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving, however a jury later discovered him not responsible.
In 2011, then-Assemblyman Martin Garrick (R-Carlsbad) pleaded no contest to a cost of driving inebriated and agreed to a four-month suspension. In 2010, then state Sen. Roy Ashburn (R-Bakersfield) was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving.
The California state Senate responded in 2015 by making a 24-hour driving service for members to name whereas they had been in Sacramento and wanted a trip. Senate President Professional Tem Toni Atkins’ workplace confirmed that the chamber nonetheless has a safety service that drives senators throughout the day and night to and from occasions in Sacramento, as wanted. Lawmakers are supposed to make use of the service for legislative functions.
“Like Senator Min, we’re disillusioned in his actions, however happy that he’s taken duty and apologized,” Atkins (D-San Diego) stated in an announcement.
