A Santa Clarita City Council candidate has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting two teenage girls, authorities said Friday.
Steve Whitmore, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, said Johnny Pride, 26, was arrested by the agency’s special victims unit on suspicion of rape, lewd acts and oral copulation of two 14-year-old girls. He allegedly gave the girls alcohol at his apartment before the assaults, according to investigators.
Pride was arrested Thursday in connection with the alleged assaults, which occurred Feb. 27. He is being held in lieu of $500,000 bail.
A former reality TV show contestant, Pride is running for a seat on the Santa Clarita council in the April 13 election.
— Richard Winton
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