MTV's Tila Tequila Gets Star Footballer Shawne Merriman Arrested
Tequila, of ‘A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila’ fame, signed a citizen’s arrest warrant accusing Merriman of choking and restraining her when she tried to leave the player’s house, north of San Diego.
Tila Tequila, whose real name is Tila Nguyen, was shot to fame with her reality show ‘A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila’ which ran for two seasons on MTV.
If the reports of an online website is to be believed, the duo was spotted at Stingaree nightclub in San Diego around 1am, i.e. a few hours before that incident took place. "They were taken in a roped off area and Tila was seen giving Shawne lap dances all night long," the website reported.
The cops responded about 3:45 a.m. to a disturbance call at the suburban home of the San Diego Chargers linebacker, when a woman called to say she was choked by the player and thrown to the ground when she tried to leave.
Tequila was taken to Pomerado Hospital in Poway, Calif where she received treatment and was discharged shortly after.
Merriman has been taken into custody and the bail was set at $58,000 (reported by the San Diego Union-Tribune).
Tequila was quite excited, as evident from a post on her twitter page, which says she was recently in the town to attend Chargers’ game Friday night against the San Francisco 49ers. Her tweet read as follows:
“Im the Head Cheerleader Prom Queen and (at)Shawne Merriman is the Prom King! hahaha! LETS GOOO! LIGHTS OUT! SAN DIEGO I WILL SEE U TOMORROW!”