{"id":793882,"date":"2026-05-13T17:10:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/793882\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T17:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:10:24","slug":"ex-gubernatorial-candidate-stephen-cloobeck-arrested-in-los-angeles-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/793882\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-gubernatorial candidate Stephen Cloobeck arrested in Los Angeles County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Real estate developer and former gubernatorial candidate Stephen Cloobeck, who exited the race in November, was arrested in Los Angeles County on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Jail records show Cloobeck, 64, was arrested before 11 a.m. and booked at the West Hollywood station on $300,000 bail, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department jail booking records.<\/p>\n<p>He was freed at 1:17 p.m. that afternoon, according to jail records.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested on suspicion of attempting to prevent or dissuade a witness from testifying, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department. <\/p>\n<p>For a short time, Cloobeck was among the crowded field running for state governor.<\/p>\n<p>But he <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-11-24\/stephen-cloobeck-exits-gubernatorial-race-endorses-rep-eric-swalwell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bowed out in November<\/a>, announcing on CNN he was throwing his support behind then-Congressman Eric Swalwell.<\/p>\n<p>It was the philanthropist\u2019s first-ever political campaign, which he funded through a fortune amassed in the real estate industry. In a UC Berkeley poll co-sponsored by The Times last fall, Cloobeck received less than half of 1% of the support of registered voters.<\/p>\n<p>Cloobeck said he had launched his run because he could not find a single qualified candidate \u2014 until he endorsed Swalwell.<\/p>\n<p>Swalwell<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/story\/2026-04-13\/eric-swalwell-bipartisan-push-to-expel-him-from-house\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> exited the race<\/a> and resigned from Congress amid a sex scandal last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real estate developer and former gubernatorial candidate Stephen Cloobeck, who exited the race in November, was arrested in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":793883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[163817,324000,324001,192936,6080,50,16361,190651,324004,6176,5174,190648,324002,324003,5618,67,132,68,9111],"class_list":["post-793882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","category-us","tag-afternoon","tag-cloobeck","tag-ex-gubernatorial-candidate-stephen-cloobeck","tag-jail-record","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-news","tag-november","tag-philanthropist","tag-philantrhopist","tag-race","tag-support","tag-swalwell","tag-then-congressman-eric-swalwell","tag-times-last-fall","tag-tuesday","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-voter"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116568384867062766","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}