{"id":688948,"date":"2010-03-11T15:26:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T20:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a927fcc5970b"},"modified":"2010-03-11T15:36:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T20:36:46","slug":"girlicious-singer-acquaintance-charged-with-drug-possession-in-glendale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/688948","title":{"rendered":"Girlicious singer, acquaintance charged with drug possession in Glendale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mugs\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a9283b72970b \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a9283b72970b-800wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Mugs\"><\/img><\/a> A member of the pop group Girlicious was charged Thursday with drug possession with the intent to distribute or sell after Glendale police said they found more than a dozen plastic bags of cocaine in her Gucci purse.<\/p>\n<p>Natalie Mejia, 21, of Diamond Bar was arrested Tuesday night during a traffic stop in Glendale near the Ventura<br \/>\nFreeway. She was a passenger in a 1998 Ford Mustang that police said was speeding.<\/p>\n<p> The singer had just dined at a Burbank restaurant and was running late for an airplane flight, police said. A search turned up the baggies of cocaine, police said, although the singer told police that the drugs were not hers and that she<br \/>\ndid not know how they got there. <\/p>\n<p>The driver, Peter Asencio, 28, of Burbank, whom Mejia said she had met only days earlier, also was arrested. <\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles County district attorney&#8217;s office charged him with drug possession to distribute or sell and driving with a suspended driver&#8217;s license, Glendale Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz said.<\/p>\n<p>Glendale police are continuing their investigation, Lorenz said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Andrew Blankstein<\/p>\n<p><em>Photos: Peter Asencio and Natalie Mejia. Credit: Glendale Police Department<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A member of the pop group Girlicious was charged Thursday with drug possession with the intent to distribute or sell after Glendale police said they found more than a dozen plastic bags of cocaine in her Gucci purse. Natalie Mejia, 21, of Diamond Bar was arrested Tuesday night during a traffic stop in Glendale near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3572,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Te4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}