{"id":269599,"date":"2010-02-03T05:40:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T10:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=91642"},"modified":"2010-02-03T05:40:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T10:40:44","slug":"ryan-seacrest-stalker-chidi-uzomah-pleads-not-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/269599","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Seacrest Stalker, Chidi Uzomah, Pleads Not Guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man accused of stalking radio\/TV personality Ryan Seacrest has pleaded not guilty to harassing the <em>American Idol<\/em> host.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Chidi Benjamin Uzomah Jr. entered a not guilty plea to one count of felony stalking and two misdemeanour counts of violating a court order to stay away from Seacrest, E! News said this week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Ryan-Secrest-Stalker-Pleads-Not-Guilty-500x363.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ryan Secrest Stalker Pleads Not Guilty\" width=\"500\" height=\"363\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-91645\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-91642\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to a restraining order petition filed by Ryan&#8217;s attorneys, last September, Uzomah, 25, an Army reservist,  pleaded guilty to assault, battery and carrying a switchblade in Orange County after he tried to meet Seacrest after an event. In November, Uzomah allegedly showed up at Seacrest&#8217;s E! studio wielding a knife. He ended up attacking one of Seacrest&#8217;s bodyguards.<\/p>\n<p>A pretrail hearing is set for March 9.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/M6I4mENJqlmWPzi0tTw_jlRkha8\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/M6I4mENJqlmWPzi0tTw_jlRkha8\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/M6I4mENJqlmWPzi0tTw_jlRkha8\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/M6I4mENJqlmWPzi0tTw_jlRkha8\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man accused of stalking radio\/TV personality Ryan Seacrest has pleaded not guilty to harassing the American Idol host. On Tuesday, Chidi Benjamin Uzomah Jr. entered a not guilty plea to one count of felony stalking and two misdemeanour counts of violating a court order to stay away from Seacrest, E! News said this week. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}