Stockton Mayor Anthony Silva was arrested Thursday morning at his Stockton youth camp at Silver Lake in Amador County on several charges involving at least one minor and a game of strip poker, records show. 
 
 Silva, 41, was charged with eavesdropping or recording confidential communications, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, providing alcohol to a minor and cruelty to a child by endangering health, according to court records. 
 
 The incidents for which Silva is being charged happened between Aug. 5 and Aug. 9, 2015, at the Stockton Silver Lake Camp, according to the Amador County District Attorney. 
 
 The arrest stems from a September 2015 FBI investigation where Silva’s cell phone was seized by Homeland Security investigators at San Francisco International Airport as he got off a flight from China. 
 
 One of the clips on Silva’s phone contained audio of several people during a strip poker game in Silva’s bedroom at the camp, the Amador County district attorney said. One of the participants was 16 years old. 
 
 Show Transcript Hide Transcript OF MAYOR ANTHONY SILVA WE HAVE TEAM COVERAGE THIS AFTERNOON. STOCKTON WITH REACTION TO THE ARREST. BUT WE BEGIN WITH KCRA 3'S KEVIN OLIVER IN JACKSON WITH THE CHARGES THE MAYOR IS FACIN KEVI KEVIN: HE HAS BEEN HERE SINCE 10:45 SINCE HE WAS ARRESTED. THE NUMBER OF DIFFERE AGENCIES WORKING ON THIS INVESTIGATION STARTED WITH THE F EI. THE AMADOR COUNTY JAIL, BECAUSE OF THE CRIMES, THE ALLEGEDLY MAYOR HAS BEEN BROUGHT HERE. ALCOHOL TO MINORS AND THE FOURTH A CHILD. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE OF THIS STARTED WITH AN FBI INVESTIGATION. SELES CELL PHONE. PHONE. THEY STARTED GOING THROUGH IT AND FOUND 23 PHOTOGRAPHS AND FOUR VIDEO CLIPS RELATED TO A YOUTH CAMP THAT WAS IDENTIFIED AMADOR COUNTY CAN THIS OCCURRED BETWEEN AUGUST AND AUGUST 9. FROM WHAT INVESTIGATORS, ON THE PHONE, THERE WAS A VIDEO CLIP THAT WAS FROM THE AUDIO RECORDING, THEY PARTICIPANTS WERE INVOLVED IN A STRICT UPPER GAME THAT INVOLVED THE MAYOR AND CHILDREN IN MAYOR SILVA'S BEDROOM. CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE PARTICIPANTS INDICATED THAT A WERE NAKED AT THE TIME. MALE. TH AUDIO RECORDING GOES ON TO INDICATE, ACCORDING TO THE THE CHILDREN, THE PARTICIPANTS DID NOT WANT TO BE RECORDED HERE AND IT STATES THAT SILVA HAD AVAILABLE TO A NUMBER OF THIS IS SOME OF THE PULMONARY THIS INVESTIGATION. MAYOR SILVA IS BEING HELD AT THE BOND. 
 
 The district attorney said the audio revealed that participants in the poker game did not want to be recorded. There is no video on the clip, because the phone had been set down, the district attorney said. 
 
 "We're hearing that there was multiple adults present, that there was only one minor present," Silva's attorney Allen Sawyer said Thursday evening. 
 
 Witnesses stated that Silva supplied alcohol to a number of underage counselors at the camp as well, according to the Amador County district attorney. 
 
 "He absolutely maintains his innocence, and he's looking forward to his day in court and he absolutely believes he will be vindicated," Sawyer said. 
 
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 Show Transcript Hide Transcript ALSO TONIGHT WE'RE HEARING FROM ONE OF SILVA'S ATTORNEY'S WHO SAYS THE MAYOR WASN'T THE ONLY KID. THIS VIDEO SHOWS STOCKTON MAYOR ANTHONY SILVA DANCING AROUND A CAMPFIRE AT LAST YEAR'S SILVER LAKE YOUTH CAMP. IT'S HERE THAT IN 2015 INVESTIGATORS SAY SILVA FILMED A STRIP POKER GAME INVOLVING A 16-YEAR-OLD BOY IN HIS BEDROOM. WHEN SOPHIA MARTINEZ LEARNED OF THE ALLEGATION, SHE FEARED FOR HER OWN SON, ONE OF NEARLY 100 KIDS AT THAT SAME CAMP THURSDA RIGHT AWAY I PANICKED, LIKE I'M GOING TO GO GET MY SON. TOM: SOPHIA AND HER MOTHER JEANNETTE FIRST LEARNED OF THE INCIDENT THIS MORNING. >> IF HE DID IT LAST YEAR, WHO' TO SAY HE WOULDN'T DO IT THIS YEAR. TOM: BUT IT WASN'T UNTIL AFTER PICKING UP HER SON THAT MARTINEZ HEARD FROM THE CITY. WE ARE NOTIFYING ALL CAMP PARENTS THAT THE AMADOR COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE HAS ANTHONY SILVA IN RELATION TO INCIDENTS INVOLVING YOUTH TH OCCURRED LAST YEAR AT THE CAMP. LAW ENFORCEMENT IS ON THE SCENE AND YOUR CHILD IS IN N IMMEDIATE DANGER. >> WE'RE HEARING THAT THERE WAS MULTIPLE ADULTS PRESENT THAT THERE WAS ONLY ONE MINOR PRESENT. TOM: SILVA'S ATTORNEY SAYS THE MAYOR MAINTAINS HIS INNOCENCE, AND HE'S LOOKING FORWARD TO HIS DAY IN COURT. SILVA BAILED OUT OF JAIL, BUT DESPITE OUR ATTEMPTS TO TALK TO HIM AT HIS STOCKTON HOME, NO ONE AND, AT THE STOCKTON KIDS CENTER WHICH HE RUNS, THE DOORS REMAIN LOCKED. SON, WHO SAYS NOTHING INAPPROPRIATE HAPPENED THIS YEAR. BUT SHE'S STILL CALLING FOR SILVA'S RESIGNATIO >> THAT'S EVERY PARENT'S FEAR TO HAVE SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPEN AND YOU JUST NEVER KNOW, YOU DON'T KNOW WHO TO TRUST. TOM: MAYOR SILVA'S ARREST COMES LESS THAN 100 DAYS BEFORE STOCKTON'S NEXT MAYORAL ELECTION STOCKTON ASSEMBLY MEMBER SUSAN EGGMAN ARE PUBLICLY CALLING FOR 
 
 Silva posted his $20,000 bail Thursday afternoon. He then went back to the camp, which is run by the city of Stockton, gathered his belongings and left. 
 
 Silva was relieved from the camp and another adult is now supervising at this time, the city said in a news release. Law enforcement is also at the camp and that "children are in no immediate danger." 
 
 Staff members talked to parents in case they wanted to pick up their children or have the city to arrange a way back to Stockton for them, the city said. Parents said they got a call and a recording told them about Silva's arrest. 
 
 Show Transcript Hide Transcript THE MAYOR. YOU? IS 100% CHARGES. WE JUST TALKED TO SOME PARENTS CHILDREN. >> RIGHTLY AT PANIC. PANICED. SAYS ONCE SHE HEARD ABOUT THE MAYOR'S ARREST SHE DROVE UP TO CHILD. HIM, THEY HAD ALL THESE COPS. WITH THE KIDS. ABOUT. MELINDA: SOME PEOPLE WE TALKED WITH TODAY SAY THEY WERE SURPRISED, AND SHOCKED BUT OTHERS TELL US THEY WERE NOT MAYOR HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN QUESTIONABLE ACTS BEFORE. >> I'M NOT SURPRISED. HE HAS BEEN GOING TO ALL KINDS SEEMS LIKE SOMETHING COMES UP GUY. THE TIMING. CALLING FOR ACTION. >> IF THIS IS FOR HIM TO RESIGN. WE'VE GOT TO MOVE ON AS A CITY. WE HAVE EXITED BANKRUPTC CAPTURE -- CAPITAL OF THE WORLD. WE ARE TRYING TO MOVE FORWARD IN DISTRACTION. MELINDA: SOME RESIDENTS EVE SAID ANTHONY SILVA UNTIL THEY HEARD ABOUT HIS ARREST. >> THE HOMELESS OUTHOUSES. THE COMMUNITY. IT SEEMS LIKE OUR PAST GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN LOOKING TO THAN INVEST IN THE PEOPLE. I THOUGHT HE WAS MORE THAN JUST TRYING TO GET RICH. FRANKLY I'M DISGUSTED BECAUSE I LOVE THE CITY AND IT IS GOING TO MELINDA: WE TALKED TO ONE MOTHER WHO SAID HER EIGHT EUROS SON SAW POLICE AND FBI CAP BUT DID NOT SEE THE MAYOR GET ARRESTED. TELL THEM THE MAYOR IS JUST I TALKED TO ANOTHER MOTHER AND SHE IS ANGRY AT CITY HALL BECAUSE SHE SAYS SHE WAS NOT NOTIFIED. 
 
 "Right away I panicked, like, 'I'm going to go get my son,'" mother Sophia Martinez said. 
 
 Her 8-year-old son was at the summer camp Thursday. After she picked him up, she asked her son if anything inappropriate. 
 
 "What did you guys do, where did you sleep, who was in the cabin with you, is everything okay?" Martinez said. "That's every parent's fear: to have something like that happen. And you just never know, you don't know who to trust," 
 
 Shortly after the seizure last September, Silva insisted the federal government wouldn't find anything incriminating on his devices. 
 
 "They're not gonna find any espionage or anything like that on my computers or my cell phone, but by me giving into that sort of search, when I knew the search was illegal -- and it'll be proven that they have to give the stuff back anyways -- I wasn't protecting the rest of the American people," Silva said. 
 
 Silva's attorney, Mark Reichel, issued a statement to KCRA earlier Thursday: 
 
 "They have had all of this evidence for over a year. Unlimited resources have been spent on this in an effort to find something they can investigate. The timing is extremely suspicious as people will only hear 1/2 of the story before the election. He will clear his name." 
 
 Silva has made headlines Friday after a gun stolen from Silva's home was linked to several crimes in Stockton, including the killing of 13-year-old Rayshawn Harris in 2015. 
 
 Silva did not report the gun was missing until nearly a month after Rayshawn's death. In the March 2015 report, Silva said that his home had been burglarized and that his .40-caliber Beretta was taken, along with a 100-quart cooler, a generator, a laser printer, a camera and a game console, according to the report. 
 
 Silva became mayor in January 2013. For eight years prior to that, Silva was the CEO of the Boys and Girls Club of Stockton, according to Silva's website. 
 
 Silva is running for re-election in 2016 against Stockton Councilman Michael Tubbs, who came out on top during June's primary election with 33.6 percent of the vote. Silva received 26 percent of the vote. 
 
 The Stockton Police Officers' Association said it is endorsing Tubbs. 
 
 "There's just been a pattern of behavior that we can't support," board member Kathryn Nance said. "There's just an ongoing, things that have happened since he's been elected that we felt was not conducive to what we were looking for." 

 (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. 
 
 The mayor of Stockton, California, Anthony Ray Silva. REUTERS/Amador County Jail 
 
 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 conversation among several young people, including a 16-year-old boy, who were playing strip poker with the mayor inside his cabin at the camp. 
 
 Prosecutors said in a media statement it was evident that the participants, who were naked, were recorded against their will. Amador County District Attorney Todd Riebe said those present besides the mayor included two to three females and three males, all ranging in age from 18 to 20. 
 
 The criminal complaint further accuses Silva of supplying alcohol to six underage youths. Prosecutors said some were camp counselors. 
 
 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. 
 
 In addition to hosting unprivileged children at the city-leased camp each summer, Silva has served as president of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Stockton for the past six years. 
 
 Silva’s lawyer, Mark Reichel, told Reuters his client “will be vindicated” and suggested the case was politically motivated, noting that the mayor, a Republican, faces a tough election run-off in November against a Democratic city councilman. 
 
 Asked whether Silva was playing strip poker with youths from his camp, Reichel replied, “I highly doubt it.” Reichel added, “I can’t wait to fight them in court, so we can expose the epidemic of kids at summer camp playing strip poker.” 
 
 Silva 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. 
 
 Silva, who is not married, was arrested by FBI agents Thursday morning at the camp and released on $20,000 bond later in the day. 
 
 His next court date is Aug. 18. If convicted of the charges, he could face up to three years in prison. 

 "In one of the video clips, it appeared that moments after the video began, the phone was set down, darkening the camera lens and thus only containing audio. That clip contains audio of a conversation between participants involved in a strip poker game that occurred in Silva's bedroom," prosecutors said in a statement. "The conversation between the participants indicated that they were naked."
– A California mayor has been charged with secretly recording a strip poker game featuring at least one 16-year-old, Reuters reports. The incident allegedly took place last August in Stockton mayor Anthony Silva's bedroom at the summer camp he runs for inner-city kids in need. According to the Los Angeles Times, Silva was arrested at the camp on Thursday. Prosecutors say Silva started recording the strip poker game with his cellphone then immediately set the phone down, leaving only a dark screen with audio. But they say the audio makes it clear the participants, one of whom was a 16-year-old boy, were naked and did not want to be recorded. Silva was charged with felony eavesdropping, as well as giving alcohol to a minor, child endangerment, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Witnesses say Silva provided alcohol for the strip poker game. None of the participants, all camp counselors, were of legal drinking age. The recording was found after the FBI seized Silva's phone last September, KCRA reports. It's unclear what prompted the FBI to do that. Silva, the former CEO of the Boys and Girls Club of Stockton, has been touched by a number of controversies since 2012. "He will clear his name," his lawyer tells KCRA following Thursday's charges. Silva was released on $20,000 bail after his arrest.