Reality TV Arrests and Tampa
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I did not bother to write too much about the shenanigans of former Bachelor winner Mary Delgado, who was arrested two weeks ago here in Pinellas County for assaulting her fiance Byron Velvick. Delgado and Velvick met and fell in love on the sixth season of reality TV’s The Bachelor. National tabloid shows and our local news gleefully played the footage from inside the police station.
Delgado hit Velvick in the face, causing a cut on his upper lip. She is charged with domestic battery charge which is a misdemeanor. This comes right on the tail of an appearance The Bachelor: After the Final where, Delgado and Velvick said they planned to wed next November
This morning Tampa locals woke up to the news that former American Idol contestant Jessica Sierra was arrested again early this morning at Full Moon Saloon in Ybor City for disorderly intoxication and resisting arrest without violence. She is also in violation of probation. Just plead no contest two weeks ago to charges of cocaine possession and felony battery for hitting a man with a glass at a bar last April.
Sierra is being held in jail this morning without bail.
If you take a look at local discussion forums. You will see all kinds of opinions about Sierra and her antics. One, however, stands out and seems to come to her defense.
This reader says Sierra has been out singing karaoke the past 9 or 10 days, most often at Pete’s Place on Thursdays and Fridays. He says she was not drunk or drinking when he observed her at that location, though “…there were guys trying to get her drunk and/or stoned in hopes of getting laid.”
The reader goes on to say, “…not beyond the belief that someone spiked her coca cola. The behavior reported in Ybor is sooooooooo out of line for her….Lot’s of women are very jealous of her and very capable of ’setting her up’.”
The reader also commented on Sierra’s arrest two weeks ago, saying “I do know that the original incident at the Hyde Park Cafe involved this so called ‘victim’ actually spitting in her face and she reacted by throwing a drink at him. The fact that the glass broke and hit him in the eye was an accident. Most of us would have slugged someone if they spit in our face.”
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