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Orange County DA Office via AP
Nadia Lockyer, a former Bay Area county supervisor and the estranged wife of California Treasurer Bill Lockyer, was arrested in Orange County last week on suspicion of drug possession, child endangerment and other charges.
Former Alameda County, Calif., Supervisor Nadia Lockyer, the estranged wife of California Treasurer Bill Lockyer, faces charges of drug possession and child abuse following her arrest last week, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Police arrested Lockyer, 41, after they received a tip that she may be keeping drugs at an Orange County home where she was staying with her 9-year-old son. When police arrived, they found methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia – a tubular aluminum foil with a burned end – at the house.
Lockyer wasn’t home at the time, but when police found her, they said she showed “objective signs” of meth intoxication, the Associated Press reported. She was arrested on August 28 and charged with felony methamphetamine possession and three misdemeanors: being under the influence of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and child abuse.
She faces the child abuse charge because she allegedly kept the drugs in the home with her son.
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Lockyer pleaded not guilty to all charges on August 30 and was released on her own recognizance to National Therapeutic Services, a drug rehab Center in Orange County, the Mercury-News reported. She’s due in court Monday for a pretrial hearing.
“Nadia recognizes her error and is in the process of doing everything possible to regain her health,” her attorney, Allan Stokke, told the Associated Press.
Bill Lockyer, 71, filed for divorce from his wife in July three months after she resigned from the Alameda County Board of Supervisors on April 20 in the wake of a sex and drug scandal.
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Nadia alleged in February she was assaulted by a former boyfriend while the two were in a room she rented after a dispute with her husband. She met the man at a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program, the Mercury-News reported. After a lengthy investigation, the Justice Department announced that no charges would be filed against her lover.
Bill Lockyer’s spokesperson Tom Dresslar said Wednesday that “Bill hopes Nadia has a successful recovery, and he also wants to make clear that [their son] is living with him in the Bay Area and he’s safe and sound,” the Mercury-News reported.
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C'mon everyone! Here's somebody to kick while she's down!
Married to a Democrat politician in California. Threw it away to live with a guy she met in rehab. I'd say she's doing a pretty good job of kicking herself.
You just gotta love all the ways they find to tack on sentences and jail terms when it comes to drugs
When it comes to stealing money from someone though....well....I mean the Maddoffs family lost everything right? Using your office for personal gain? Well....define personal gain....
When are we going to realize that we are filling our prisons with drug users while people who actually are more likely to harm others in their crimes are dancing away?
Brian, if she wants to fry her own brain, she can have at it.
The big problem is her kid. Would you want your child in the company of a meth addict? I wouldn't, and I don't believe any sane parent would. She needs help, and if that help includes a stay in jail, so be it. A great opportunity to get clean.
You have to love it! I am not guilty of possession and using drugs but I would like to go to a rehab center. I guess for R&R!
That's what these old pharts get for marrying these younger women. He's 71 & she looks pretty young.
She looks pretty hot to me and probably got tired of a 71 year old. The Meth will rot this nice look away and the crazy eyes will get worse. I hope they sentence her to a long term treatment so she can be well and find peace. Meth is baked rat poison and not much worse out there to kill you quick........
She is kinda hot looking!
Got that Meth chic thing working for her.
Perhaps a future in the adult film industry?
Give it a few more years, its amazing how quickly meth ages someone.
I got some before & after pictures off the internet, it's unbelievable what that stuff does to a person in just a few years. There is no way I would touch it.
Wall to Wall Pupils!
Kind of got that Nancy Pelosi look in her eyes! Longing for Harry Reid! Just hasn't got that Harry gave it to me smile!
Well you have to use drugs to be a Democrat.
but you don't need drugs to be as dumb as a RepubliCON.
yeah republicans are a bunch of alcoholic skirt chasers
So, rick, republican men treat their women right, and still have the drive to chase skirts, but the Democrat men are so lame that their women have to go looking for it?
meth seems to be as bad or worse than crack . it is easy to make and very addictive . it sure has done a lot for the scrap copper market .
mercenary, off topic but in GA they passed a law this year you've got to have a contractor's license to sell scrap copper no cash payments either. I hope it works, they are killing the farmers here stealing the copper on their irrigation systems & stealing peoples central heating & A.C. units for a few dollars.
It's CaliPornia!
Ive heard of this nightmare where the mother is addicted to meth and the divorced father is paying child and spousal support. Looks like this father will come out ahead and their son as well, make no mistake this woman would have bled her husband dry to support her habit and destroyed their child as well.
The cops got a tip. Anybody care to guess where the tip came from?
Does it really matter ? It can only help her in the long run JMO.
So....California politico....drug user.....dope head....under arrest....child endangerment.....is there a news story in here someplace? Looks like business as usual for California....say, was she making $850,000 a year as a county supervisor? Every other city/county official out there seems to be.....California, what a tragic fall from grace that place is. Really too bad....I loved it when I was growing up there....not so much these days.
They're Democrats- what did you expect?
Drug dealers should be executed. Drug users, should just die.
In fact, for all you meth users, I hope your organ's bleed internally. One of the most common ingrediants is Muriatic Acid. Do you KNOW what that crap does, if even a single drop touches your skin? Imagine acid, eating through your stomach lining, your intestines, your liver, even the lungs...
In actuality, it physically destroys red blood cells. The cells that carry oxygen to your brain. That's where the high comes from. The inability of oxygen to get to your brain.
So in essence, meth users destroy the oxygen carrying blood cells that carry oxygen to the brain, in order to get high.
All I have to say is, I hope you all die. I hope your children die. I hope your grandchildren die. You know why? Because your helping destroy your family already, so you all deserve to die.
"Drug users, should just die"
They usually do, with no help from anyone else.
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So if your child or wife was seriously injured, ended up getting addicted to pain killers and quite possibly moved on to heroin when the pain killers got to expensive to buy because thier tolerance sky rocketed...you would wish them dead? I doubt it, You'd get them help. Drug addicts are no different from anyone else sober, addiction is obviously something you dont understand because you've never been through it...and people come through it and become amazing people who do amazing things...you are one of the most ignorant people ive ever heard...keep your mouth shut about things you have no clue about...just makes you look stupid
Why are there vice laws in the Land of Liberty? Why is it okay that some doc can prescribe hallucinogens to people that then go on shooting sprees--that is okay but this case isn't?
LOVE how the child endangerment was tossed in there too... the gov't read Mein Kampf well, ole Dolfie called it right that folks will sacrifice liberty in the name of child safety.
Everyone realizes that the child is far more in danger from the arsenic & fluoride in our water than from someone on meth?
"Everyone realizes that the child is far more in danger from the arsenic & fluoride in our water than from someone on meth?"
Are you not well? What kind of statement is that? Completely nuts.
Wow you're, not well educated are you?
Yeah, I'd rather my daughter be with a tool like Nadia while she's high, maybe driving around or hanging out with other meth users versus... drinking tap water.
Dead on there Derek, water vs meth heads, yeah...
She is hot. Too bad she has issues. Marrying a 71 yr old man, who is 30 years older...and reduced to using meth. I would guess this woman had issues before either of these things were in her life, both were last ditch efforts for her. Hopefully she kicks meth, deals with her issues and come back healthier and hotter than ever.
He's 71 and she's 41.
A relationship based on true love, I'm sure.
Yeah he poured over a million to flood Alameda with ads for her to become a District 2 supervisor in... 2010 I think? He wanted a hot young wife to do, she wanted political power...
It's like the Clintons but without any of the "Hot Wife" part of it.
Chicks like older men.
An older man knows where everything is and exactly what to do with it.
They're Democrats- what did you expect?
I don't care if she does have DSL...that's just NASTY!
It is my prayer that Mrs. Lockyear get the help that she so desperately needs, if only for the sake of her child. What's needed here is compassion not sick remarks. But for the grace of God go the rest of us.
Peace
It has nothing to do with your god. Weak people need drugs to face life.
Very sad for the 9 year old child...
Hopefully the mother can kick a habit that is almost impossible too do and turn her life around...