A California state senator cited on suspicion of DUI following a automobile crash in Sacramento has forcefully denied the allegation — saying she has been “falsely accused” and lab checks later executed at a hospital will present she had no alcohol in her system.
Sen. Sabrina Cervantes (D-Riverside) stated she was detained and questioned for a number of hours as she was being handled at a hospital on Monday afternoon after her sedan was T-boned by an SUV close to the Capitol.
“I need to be clear: I did nothing flawed,” Cervantes, 37, stated in an announcement Wednesday. “The lab outcomes I sought within the hospital present conclusively I had no alcohol in my system. I count on this to be shortly and justly resolved.”
Cervantes left her car close to the intersection of 14th and S streets round 1:30 p.m. and was taken to a hospital, the place officers met her, in line with the Sacramento Police Division. The officers “noticed goal indicators of intoxication and performed a DUI investigation,” the division stated in an announcement.
Officers stated she was below the affect and cited her with a misdemeanor on suspicion of DUI.
Cervantes, nonetheless, denies the declare and stated police questioned her for a number of hours whereas she was being handled for her minor accidents.
“I used to be accosted by Sacramento Police Division officers, falsely accused of driving below the affect, and involuntarily detained for a number of hours on the hospital,” Cervantes stated in her assertion. “This ordeal was deeply distressing and left me much more shaken. As a Senator, spouse, and mom, I maintain myself to the best normal and count on others that serve our communities to do the identical.”
Cervantes represents the thirty first Senate District, protecting parts of Riverside County and the Inland Empire, and beforehand served within the state Meeting. She has served because the chair for the Latino Legislative Caucus and can be a member of the California Legislative Girls’s Caucus and the California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus.
Her sister, Clarissa Cervantes, serves as a metropolis council member in Riverside and her father, Greg Cervantes, is the previous mayor of Coachella.
