{"id":365986,"date":"2010-02-26T11:10:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T16:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=94611"},"modified":"2010-02-26T11:10:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T16:10:10","slug":"chikezie-eze-former-%e2%80%9camerican-idol%e2%80%9d-contestant-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/365986","title":{"rendered":"Chikezie Eze, Former \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d Contestant, Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former <em>American Idol<\/em> contestant Chikezie Eze <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2010\/02\/26\/chikezie-arrest-american-idol-identity-theft\/\">has been arrested<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Chikezie-Eze-Arrested.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Chikezie Eze Arrested\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-94612\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-94611\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The singer with the unforgettable name also has a pretty hard to forget face: Eze was collared on a charge of felony identity theft in Beverly Hills on Thursday after a Neiman Marcus sales rep spied him trying to make a purchase using a fake credit\/check card.<\/p>\n<p>He was detained by Neiman&#8217;s security and then arrested by the Beverly Hills police.<\/p>\n<p>Eze is currently being held on $50,000 bail and is scheduled to appear in court on March 1. Eze placed tenth on the seventh season of the hit FOX reality singing competition, <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/aPeguLigLlsGp86XGgxnkdqh73g\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/aPeguLigLlsGp86XGgxnkdqh73g\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/aPeguLigLlsGp86XGgxnkdqh73g\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/aPeguLigLlsGp86XGgxnkdqh73g\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former American Idol contestant Chikezie Eze has been arrested. The singer with the unforgettable name also has a pretty hard to forget face: Eze was collared on a charge of felony identity theft in Beverly Hills on Thursday after a Neiman Marcus sales rep spied him trying to make a purchase using a fake credit\/check [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365986","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\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}