{"id":2788,"date":"2019-11-09T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=2788"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:28:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:28:36","slug":"eric-fleming-madera-county-s-chief-executive-awaits-trial-on-dui-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/eric-fleming-madera-county-s-chief-executive-awaits-trial-on-dui-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Fleming, Madera County\u2019s chief executive, awaits trial on DUI charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2788\" class=\"elementor elementor-2788\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6cf32e1d e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6cf32e1d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2fe4d0ae elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2fe4d0ae\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Chief Administrative Officer of Madera County, Eric D. Fleming, is awaiting a trial in Fresno County on charges of driving under the influence, according to records recently confirmed by the Fresno Police Department.<\/p><p>Fleming, 50, who lives in Fresno, has been the chief executive officer of Madera County government since late 2010.<\/p><p>The misdemeanor arrest was made on July 4, 2019.<\/p><p>His car was towed.<\/p><p>Fleming reportedly was released on his own recognizance at the scene. The court case remains pending.<\/p><p>When contacted by the Tribune for comment, Fleming said, \u201cI am human, and I make mistakes. Last July, I made a huge mistake, and chose to drive home after celebrating with friends.<\/p><p>\u201cI was pulled over by the Fresno PD on suspicion of driving under the influence. I received a citation and was allowed to go home.<\/p><p>\u201cThe case is pending. I want to apologize to my family, my friends, the Board of Supervisors and the employees of the Madera County organization for creating this negative attention.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chief Administrative Officer of Madera County, Eric D. Fleming, is awaiting a trial in Fresno County on charges of driving under the influence, according to records recently confirmed by the Fresno Police Department. Fleming, 50, who lives in Fresno, has been the chief executive officer of Madera County government since late 2010. The misdemeanor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":41297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[39,43],"class_list":["post-2788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-government","tag-law"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}