He’s a republican. He’s white, but he claims to be the first black mayor of Stockton. His explanation is that he’s been doing so much for the black community over the years that he’s not just an honorary black, he’s black.
He does so much for them…. like getting naked with them and getting the underaged drunk.
Reuters – The mayor of Stockton, California, was arrested on Thursday on a felony eavesdropping charge stemming from a strip poker game he is accused of surreptitiously recording at a summer camp he hosts for disadvantaged inner-city children, prosecutors said.
Mayor Anthony Ray Silva, 41, was also charged with three misdemeanor counts – contributing to the delinquency of a minor, child endangerment and furnishing alcoholic beverages to individuals under the legal drinking age of 21, according to a criminal complaint filed in court.
Silva is accused of using his cellphone to make an audio recording of the conversation between several young people, including a 16-year-old boy, who were participating in a strip poker game with the mayor inside his cabin at the camp.
Prosecutors said in a media statement that the taped conversation indicated that the participants, who were naked, were recorded against their will.
Amador County District Attorney Todd Riebe said those involved besides the mayor included two to three females and three males, all ranging in age from 18 to 20.
The criminal complaint accuses Silva of plying six underage youths with alcohol, some of them camp counselors, according to prosecutors.
The incidents, according to prosecutors, took place last August at the Stockton Silver Lake Camp in Amador County, which lies in California Gold Country on the edge of the Sierras northeast of Stockton.
The camp is annually hosted by the mayor for about 75 underprivileged children ranging in age from five to 17, prosecutors said. Silva also has served as president of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Stockton for the past six years, according to his official biography.
He was elected mayor of Stockton, a city of about 300,000 east of San Francisco, in November 2012, months after the municipality filed for bankruptcy. The city emerged from bankruptcy protection in February 2015.
Neither Silva nor a lawyer was immediately available to comment. But the mayor acknowledged in a previous statement posted by a local TV station that he had been detained and had his electronic devices seized by federal agents at San Francisco International Airport last September, after returning from a mayor’s conference in China.
Silva, who is not married, was arrested by FBI agents on Thursday morning and released on $20,000 bond later in the day. His next court date has been set for Aug. 18.
If convicted of the charges against him, he could face up to three years in prison.
ht/ doc
Wow, the FBI lets national security breaches and law breaking by Hillary slide.
But they’ll nab a 41 yr. old guy playing strip poker with 18 to 20 year olds, bought them beer and secretly taped their “voices”.
Damn the FBI is cracking high level national security cases right and left. Non-professional Partisan HACKS.
Stockton is a cesspool and has a gang problem. I duck down whenever we go visit out son in a city near Stockton. My son works in Stockton and has been shot at. It’s not a nice city.
That guys Hispanic not white. And Republican? If you say so. This guys in the news every month. Tsunami can give the low down on this guy.
GoldenFox, I use to fish a lot of Bass Tournaments that launched out of Ladds Marina. Right off Hammer Lane. We were hauling ass back for the weigh in once and LEO boats had the entrance all plugged up. Come to find out some lady hooked a severed head while her and hubby were anchored fishing for strippers. The Tournaments stopped launching at Ladds because of all the crime
At least it’s girls and boys
He is up for re-election in Nov. I checked the OBITS to see if his campaign had died. I hope it did because he was about ready to put Stockton back into bankruptcy again.
Reminds me of a character from the last season of “True Detective.”
Wait…wait. You’re not suppose to get drunk and play strip poker with the mayor of your city? Now you tell me! They told me it was called campaigning down here. 😉
No surprise. Stockton’s a dust bin, illegal immigrant infested, corrupt, crime infested hell hole.
“They told me it was called campaigning down here.”
How low were you and what were you staring at? Lol
Bad_Brad,
Strippers? Damn, that’s got to be one heavy duty fishing leader to hold the weight of one of those.
Oohhhhhhh. . . .you meant STRIPERS. (‘ever mind).
LOL Man, Stockton makes downtown Las Vegas seem normal.
B Woodman, hey, you fish for what you won’t to fish for and I’ll fish what I want to fish for. LOL, I phone, what can I say.
Want. See what I mean.
It’s assholes like Silva that give me unending incentive to never comply with egregious legislation of any kind.
This guy isn’t a Republican in any acceptable meaning of the word. This guy is a mexoprogressive who most likely couldn’t hold down any real job, so he went into politics.
The truly corrupt will slither into any party where they can get elected. The GOP has many. We need a new party. Silva is a Portuguese surname. And I’ll bet if you look at his history, he’s a libstain.