Former El Dorado Hills leader faces criminal charges. Was he arrested?

Nearly two weeks have passed since an El Dorado County grand jury indicted a former El Dorado Hills leader, but the suspect has not yet been in custody.

Kevin Anthony Loewen, the former general manager for the El Dorado Hills Community Services District, was indicted Oct. 30, and has not been listed as in custody by the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office jail log as of Tuesday afternoon.

He faces charges of participating in a contract when he had a financial interest, perjury and three misdemeanor charges of having a conflict of interest. The El Dorado County District Attorney’s Office, when the charges were announced late last month, said a warrant had been issued for Loewen’s arrest.

Melanie Torres, a spokesperson for the District Attorney’s Office, did not respond to a request for comment on Loewen’s custody status. Sgt. Kyle Parker, a spokesperson for the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office, on Wednesday said Loewen has not ever been booked into jails in El Dorado County. He deferred all other questions to the District Attorney’s Office.

Loewen’s case is not listed in El Dorado Superior Court.

The case against Loewen focuses on a contract between national public finance consulting firm DTA — formerly called David Taussig and Associates — and the El Dorado Hills Community Services District.

Loewen, who served as services district general manager from 2017 to 2023, approved payments from the district to DTA in 2022 totaling more than $21,000, according to the indictment. He could not immediately be reached for comment.

While leading the community services district, Loewen also worked as a business development consultant and senior manager for DTA, according to a confidential investigative report issued in 2023 after residents complained about Loewen’s conduct. DTA paid Loewen $5,000 per month and later an hourly wage from early 2022 through May 2023, according to the report.

Loewen also “deliberately withheld material information” from the El Dorado Hills board that “would have been relevant to their consideration in consenting to his outside consulting work for DTA,” according to the report by Van Dermyden Makus.

Loewen resigned from his community services district position in December 2023.

This story was originally published November 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM.