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30 September
7:06 pm

Adrian Fontes was indicted for a felony for leading police on a high speed chase where he could have killed someone and was called mentally unstable by the arresting officers.

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Alexander Kolodin, at Arizona Secretary of State General Election Debate

7:06 pm
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Why we checked itA specific criminal allegation against a named political opponent, including felony indictment and characterization by officers — directly verifiable against public records.
What we foundThe core facts of the incident are real — Fontes was charged with two felonies over a 1989 police chase and was described as 'mentally disturbed' in court documents — but the claim overstates key details: the felony charges were ultimately reduced to a misdemeanor plea, the 'mentally disturbed' description came from a court/probation record (not arresting officers in the field), and the term used was 'mentally disturbed,' not 'mentally unstable.'
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