{"id":413393,"date":"2010-03-10T17:45:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T22:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f893636970c"},"modified":"2010-03-10T18:49:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T23:49:36","slug":"natalie-mejia-member-of-pop-group-girlicious-arrested-in-glendale-allegedly-had-cocaine-in-gucci-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/413393","title":{"rendered":"Natalie Mejia, member of pop group Girlicious, arrested in Glendale; allegedly had cocaine in Gucci bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f893314970c-pi\" style=\"FLOAT: left\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Natalie Mejia\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f893314970c \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f893314970c-120wi\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\"><\/img><\/a> More than a\u00a0dozen plastic bags of cocaine were found in the Gucci purse\u00a0belonging to a member of the pop group Girlicious after the entertainer and another man were pulled over for speeding, authorities said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/the818now.com\/2010\/03\/10\/girlicious-singer-arrested-last-night-in-glendale\/\">Natalie Mejia, 21, of Diamond Bar<\/a> was being held Wednesday in Glendale City Jail on suspicion of possession of cocaine for sale or distribution, said\u00a0Glendale police Sgt. Tom Lorenz. Also arrested on the same charge is 28-year-old Peter Asencio\u00a0of Burbank.<\/p>\n<p>They were pulled over at Victory Boulevard and Winchester Avenue near an onramp to the Ventura Freeway around 10:20 p.m.\u00a0Tuesday after an officer\u00a0noticed a 1998 Ford Mustang speeding through traffic, Lorenz said. <\/p>\n<p>Mejia, who was a passenger in the car and had just dined at a restaurant in Burbank, was heading to the airport and late for a flight, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police\u00a0determined that Asencio was driving with\u00a0suspended driver&#8217;s license. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>A search of the car turned up the\u00a0bags\u00a0containing what appeared to be cocaine in Mejia\u2019s Gucci purse, Lorenz said. Mejia told officers the drugs did not belong to her and that she did not know how they got into her purse. <\/p>\n<p>Lorenz said a preliminary investigation found the drugs may have been placed in her purse by Asencio, although investigators are trying to determine Mejia&#8217;s role\u00a0through further interviews and forensics testing. <\/p>\n<p>Mejia posted $30,000 bail Wednesday afternoon and is due in court April 15.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;You see this day in and day out,&quot; Lorenz said. &quot;I certainly hope that drugs are not a part of her life, because drugs, quicker than anything\u00a0else, will destroy\u00a0a person&#8217;s\u00a0career, their family and their life. I hope there\u2019s an awakening if she\u2019s not culpable for those drugs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Andrew Blankstein<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Natalie Mejia. Credit: Glendale Police Department<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a\u00a0dozen plastic bags of cocaine were found in the Gucci purse\u00a0belonging to a member of the pop group Girlicious after the entertainer and another man were pulled over for speeding, authorities said Wednesday. Natalie Mejia, 21, of Diamond Bar was being held Wednesday in Glendale City Jail on suspicion of possession of cocaine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413393","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\/5470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}