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Stockton Police Say They Contacted Mayor About Sexual-Assault Investigation

STOCKTON (CBS13) — In an interview from earlier on Tuesday, we talked to Stockton Mayor Anthony Silva who said he hadn't been contacted about a sexual-assault investigation.

"I was never arrested for anything I was never questioned for anything."

However, CBS13 contacted the Stockton Police Department and they said they did interview the man at the center of the sexual-assault investigation—Silva.

When confronted with those details, Silva again insisted that he had no contact with the police department.

He went on to say people have claiming to be the cops have been calling his office, so he doesn't readily know who CBS13 was talking to, even though our information is from the official media spokesperson with the police department.

"If it would be the Stockton Police," he said," I find it interesting that someone would call and say that."

At Tuesday's city council meeting, only two people spoke about the allegations against the mayor. Councilmembers were mum on the 2004 allegation of videotaping teens changing in his bathroom, the 2011 allegation of sexual assault against a 19-year-old, and the recent allegation filed with the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Department.

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