American Idol Contestent Sierra Arrested

[flvegan]

TAMPA - Former American Idol contestant Jessica Sierra is behind bars after Tampa police said she smashed a heavy glass over the head of a Hyde Park Café patron early Sunday.

Police charged Sierra, 21, of Tampa, with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon when she was arrested at about 1:50 a.m. Upon booking her, they slapped her with another two charges: cocaine possession and introduction of contraband into a detention facility. Police found a small amount of cocaine in her possession when she was taken to the Orient Road Jail.

She was later transferred to the Falkenberg Road Jail.

Sierra, 21, appeared on the fourth season of the hit FOX television singing show and finished in the top 10.

http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/newswire/story/american-idol-contestent-sierra-arrested/

[Deja Q]

1. Was she on meth at the time; thinking the patron was a gigantic mosquito?

:eyes:

What is wrong with people that they need to do stuff like that?

Oh, I misread... sorry, she was on cocaine... and she's not sufficiently a celebrity to get away with it either.

[cmkramer]

3. last I heard

she was having problems with a stalker.

[Deja Q]

5. Yipes.

Still, if I had a stalker, I'd call the cops. Not dope up.

[LeftyMom]

2. Well yeah, but where's the Lesbian Cheerleader Update (TM)?

[SPKrazy]

4. she's kinda sleazy

in a hot kind of way :P

:rofl:

[KitchenWitch]

6. ...

:spank:

[militaryspouse]

7. ..

i don't remember what season she was on. In fact I can't even recall ever seeing her lol.

[KitchenWitch]

9. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[LostinVA]

12. She was a good singer who deserved to last far longer than she did

[SPKrazy]

8. ha ha

:P

[Kutjara]

10. I love the way the State loves to lard on the charges.

"introduction of contraband to a detention facility." Er...seems like it was the cops who did the introducing, seeing as how they took her to the facility. I'm sure she had no intention of ending up in a detention facility that day, nor to "introduce" any of her precious cocaine to it.

I reminds me of the pathetic "car chases" we see on TV here in L. A. nearly every day. Some cretin drives around at 30 mph, waving at the cameras in the news choppers, basking in their 15 minutes, while about 90% of the L. A. police force is mobilized to catch them. Two hours of the most boring "action" ever broadcast later (accompanied by the inevitable endless inane newsmodel chatter), the miscreant either runs out of gas or the car they're driving falls apart, and they give up, often simply lying down and "assuming the position" after one final dramatic flourish at the cameras.

Then fifty cops rush in like they've taken down Osama himself and proceed to dogpile the guy into the dust. We later hear that he's been charged with about fifty offenses. If he pinged another car it's criminal damage, destruction of personal property in the commisson of a felony, and criminal action entailing economic loss. If there was a person in the car it's all the previous offenses plus assault with a deadly weapon, attempted murder and intent to cause grevious harm. Evading the police seems to break about ten laws all on its own: there's intentional evadement, evading intentionitude, elusion, evasionary elusion, elusionary evasiveness, making an officer of the law cry, spilling a peace officer's coffee, forcing an officer to waddle over and make an arrest...the list goes on, and on. Add all the traffic offenses the perp committed, and he'll end up with about 100 charges, all of which have to be waded through by some court or other.

What's the matter, aren't car theft, assault and property damage enough these days? Why the overkill? It's like the orange jumpsuit and full-body shackels aren't sufficiently serious anymore. They also have to make it look like everyone is a major felon to be sure of getting a conviction: "look, Martha, he's facing twenty charges. He MUST be guilty of at least some of them)."

Or maybe the cops have to justify devoting such an enormous amount of time and resources to chasing these clowns. Only a textbook-full of charges would legitimize such an otherwise rediculous deployment of force.

[WeRQ4U]

11. I work against a State's Attorney like this...

His complaints are ridiculous. His plea offers are always for the statutory maximum and his perception of people is completely whacked. Needless to say, he makes for a ton more work due to the fact that nobody will accept his offers.

[Kutjara]

13. No doubt trying to make himself look...

..."tough on crime" with an eye to his future political career. Unfortunately, the cumulative result of the actions of people like your SA is a country with the highest proportion of it's population behind bars of any developed nation, mostly for non-violent (usually drug-related) offenses. The cost to America in lives and resources is enormous, and it's all for nothing more than the career advancement of a bunch of political hacks.

[WeRQ4U]

14. He has an erection for drug offenses...

He's a firm believer in "incarceration before rehabilitation." For meth-heads, this may ultimately be the right choice. Their rehabilitation rate is nill and their recidivism is quite high. However, for your average pot smoker, with no intention of selling or growing, this theory is completely ridiculous.

And as far as his political career goes, this guy is a grade A shithead. If he ever wins an election, hell hath frozen over.