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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - 28-year-old TikTok creator Simran Sharma was denied bail successful her archetypal quality successful Fresno County Superior Court connected Friday pursuing a bid of events that has proven her to beryllium a information to herself and others, according to her erstwhile roommate.
Sharma was arrested aft allegedly driving recklessly and trying to tally implicit a antheral successful Fresno and taking constabulary connected a high-speed chase earlier this month.
During her tribunal quality connected Friday, Sharma pleaded not blameworthy and requested a pre-trial release. According to her attorney, Sharma had been receiving medicine that she desperately needed but "is not receiving her medications successful the jail," Sharma's lawyer told the court.
However, the prosecution argued that Sharma's behavioral signifier warranted the denial of bail.
According to the prosecution, Sharma was antecedently arrested successful 2021 for trying to tally implicit a tract worker. Sharma had allegedly told constabulary she was sexually assaulted by the tract idiosyncratic successful the tract earlier she was arrested and enactment connected a intelligence wellness diversion.
The prosecution says Sharma was inactive connected the aforesaid intelligence wellness diversion for the ongoing lawsuit successful 2021 when she was arrested connected Feb. 11, 2025.
According to the prosecution, during her arrest, Sharma made decease threats and racist remarks directed astatine officers.
"The CHP officer, that arrested the suspect aft the pursuit was an African-American gentleman," the prosecution said. "She repeatedly called him a n-----."
The justice denied Sharma's plea for bail and referred Sharma to Fresno County Jail's aesculapian services to measure what medications Sharma whitethorn beryllium missing.
"It does look that determination are nary conditions oregon operation of conditions that the tribunal could enforce that could guarantee nationalist safety," a Fresno County Superior Court Judge Chatles Lee said.
Sharma's erstwhile roommate Alec Cloney was contiguous successful the courtroom connected Friday. Cloney says Sharma should not beryllium released and is simply a information to the community.
According to Cloney, she and Sharma met portion some were receiving attraction and became friends, Cloney believed they were some connected the roadworthy to betterment - but she says Sharma took a incorrect turn.
"I thought, you know, she's doing the close thing. She's trying," Cloney said. "But she's abusing the system."
Cloney says she was warned astir Sharma, but didn't judge thing was incorrect until she became much alert of Sharma's social media beingness connected TikTok.
"She's connected unrecorded each the clip conscionable trying to beryllium successful my room. I didn't person immoderate unsocial time," Cloney said. "She perpetually uses the N-word and threatens radical [on societal media.]"
Cloney says she's not amazed Sharma was denied bail. She's besides not amazed astatine Sharma's intelligence wellness defense.
"She has a mode of manipulating and acting like, you know, she's the bully guy," Cloney said. "I don't deliberation she's harmless to beryllium astir society. I truly don't deliberation so."
