Mr. Pride is not in favor of gun control. At least not on his arms.
Just hours after his luncheon appearance at the Santa Clarita Chamber candidate forum at the Valencia Hyatt, KHTS is reporting Johnny Pride was arrested.
Johnny Pride is being held at the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s station, after being taken into custody around 5:30 p.m. Thursday. While the exact reason for the arrest is not known at this time, KHTS has confirmed that the Sheriff’s Special Victims Bureau is conducting the investigation.
Pride is being held on $500,000 bail and is due at Newhall Municipal Court on Monday, March 8.
This doesn’t look like a publicity stunt given the involvement of SVU and the bail amount. Also, no word if Myers has offered to bail him out.
UPDATE: The Signal is reporting Pride was arrested on suspicion of rape:
Pride, 26, of Valencia was arrested Thursday at about 5:37 p.m., the report says, on suspicion of rape by use of drugs or intoxicants and was being held in lieu of $500,000 bail.
UPDATE 2: The Signal is now reporting more details on the charges:
Santa Clarita City Council candidate Johnny Pride has been arrested on suspicion of raping two 14-year-old girls, a sheriff’s report said.
He was booked on charges of rape, lewd conduct with a minor, sodomy, oral copulation of a minor and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, the report stated.
The exact details of the alleged crimes could not be released because the victims were minors, said sheriff’s Detective Brian Hudson of the Special Victims Bureau, which is heading up the investigation.
TMS is also highlighting the exposure to children and the amorous side of Mr. Pride:
During his campaign for City Council, he said he works often with children and claimed to have started a nonprofit organization to bring them school supplies. However, the group he described was never registered with the state, as nonprofits are required to do.
Pride worked briefly for the William S. Hart Union High School District at Canyon High School in 2008 for less than a month, said district spokeswoman Pat Willett.
He was a walk-on coach and a substitute campus supervisor, though it was not clear which sport he coached nor whether he ever actually worked a day as a campus supervisor, she said.
Just after he announced his candidacy, Pride’s MySpace profile listed his hometown as “YOUR MOMS (sic) VAGINA” and his occupation as “Your moms (sic) boyfriend!”
According to Mr. Pride’s own posting on SCVTalk, his website and MySpace pages were hacked.
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Now look who’s talking “you know all about me”. You’re to much. At least everyone can now see the real you. You just can’t hang. You rarely answer my questions and just blast me bag with slander. It’s all you got.
Answer my questions instead of calling me names and show me you can debate and back up your mouth and I’ll give you some respect. Until then …
I have been very nice to you, keep it up and my patients will run out. I would suggest you stop while you are ahead.
Blazing – you are simply hilarious. Your internet threats amuse me. Oh DEAR ! What shall we do if your “PATIENTS” runs out!??!
Since you are no longer a youth pastor are you a doctor now? They are running away from you? Tragic. Simply tragic.
I don’t think It is going to be good for business… I would suggest you stand down and use your final cut pro for something more productive like your family videos
What you think registering blazingmonk.net means anything to me? You are so predictable, jeff and I had conversation about this Friday.
You people need to wake up. These types of crimes are happening every minute in this country. The children had the courage to come forward. They are protected because of their age. This is not over, it has just begun. This person is a sick sick person who needs to be put behind bars and they should have never let him out. They have evidence, it is the DA in San Fernando who wants more, waiting for test results, etc. Testing from the items from the search warrant of his home. You will all be shocked when the truth comes out. You should be ashamed of yourselves, if you have sons or daugthers, nieces or nephews you should believe them. If you would maybe these sick people would not be running the streets preying on innocent vulunerable children. Shame on you!
LegalEagle, you suggest people be “ashamed” of themselves for not believing every story from our children? I am personally aware of daughters (not my own) threatening their own parents that they will turn them in for child abuse if they don’t let them go out with their friends… and then actually doing it! And if you are not aware of the numerous false reports turned in by teenage girls in this country, then I’d suggest it is you who needs to wake up. Certainly, all reports are not false. But for you, and countless others, to simply take a report at face value and assume guilt, is wrong. That is what fed the lynch mobs years ago and led to the deaths of innocent people. If you want to wait for evidence to be developed, fine. Wait. But to condemn someone without that evidence is not what we want from this country. If he’s guilty, let the evidence show it after a fair day in court. But at this moment, they do not have such evidence. Therefore, your personal condemnations are quite premature.