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Another Idol Alum Sings for Cops
With the exception of recent stories about the pot-growing predilections of Sanjaya Malakar's family, this season's crop of American Idol wannabes hasn't offered much in the way of headline-grabbing legal entanglements. Luckily for them, contestants from years past seem more than happy to pick up the slack.
Jessica Sierra, the 10th-place finisher on the Carrie Underwood-crowning fourth season of the show, was arrested in Tampa early Sunday on charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, cocaine possession and introduction of contraband into a detention facility.
Talk about a hat trick.
The 21-year-old aspiring pop star was busted at Tampa's Hyde Park Café after allegedly throwing a heavy cocktail glass at a fellow patron's head, opening a major gash above the eye of 28-year-old Wisam Hadad.
Tampa police said that's unclear whether Sierra knew Hadad or not.
A police spokeswoman described Sierra as belligerent and uncooperative upon being taken into custody, requiring officers to threaten the former reality star with leg restraints after she repeatedly kicked the car windows so hard that officers worried she would break the glass.
After her arrest on the battery charge, she was taken to the Orient Road Jail, at which point cops searched her belongings and allegedly found a small bag of cocaine in her possession. She reportedly denied that the drugs were hers, but also claimed that the purse in which the baggie had been found had not been out of her possession all day.
Sierra, who got the boot back in 2005 when her rendition of LeAnn Rimes' "On the Side of Angels" failed to impress either Simon Cowell or the American public, was released Sunday afternoon after posting $11,500 bail.
The incident is not Sierra's only brush with the law—although in her previous encounter, she was on the other side of it.
Last year, 61-year-old Daniel Robert Young was arrested for stalking Sierra via a series of harassing phone calls and unwarranted gifts and eventually showing up at her grandparents' Tampa home.
The case remains open pending a mental health clearance for Young.
Sierra, who was raised by her grandparents following the death of her mother, recorded a handful of songs in Nashville last year but has no plans to release an album. She's currently biding her time working at a Tampa Hooters.
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