{"id":396295,"date":"2010-03-06T02:01:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T07:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f6e921c970c"},"modified":"2010-03-06T11:17:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T16:17:20","slug":"santa-clarita-council-candidate-arrested-on-sex-assault-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/396295","title":{"rendered":"Santa Clarita council candidate arrested on sex assault charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Johnny Pride\" border=\"0\" class=\"leadphoto \" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktla.com\/media\/photo\/2010-03\/52598574.jpg\" style=\"margin: 8px; float: left;\" title=\"Johnny Pride\" width=\"400\"><\/img>A Santa Clarita City Council candidate has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting two teenage girls, authorities said Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Steve Whitmore, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department, said Johnny Pride, 26, was arrested by the agency&#8217;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. <\/p>\n<p>Pride was arrested Thursday in connection with the alleged assaults, which occurred Feb. 27. He is being held in lieu of $500,000 bail. <\/p>\n<p>A former reality TV show contestant, Pride is running for a seat on the Santa Clarita council in the April 13 election. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Richard Winton <\/p>\n<p>Photo: KTLA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s Department, said Johnny Pride, 26, was arrested by the agency&#8217;s special victims unit on suspicion of rape, lewd acts and oral copulation of two 14-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396295","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\/4566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}