"American Idol" finalist Julia DeMato says her weekend drug bust was a "misunderstanding" that "will be taken care of in court."
A Brookfield police report said officers questioned DeMato after she pulled into a restaurant parking lot more than an hour after it had closed. She failed a field sobriety test and officers found in her vehicle "two marijuana pipes, a small quantity of marijuana and a glassine baggie with a small amount of white powder in her purse that field tested positive for cocaine."
The would-be singer was released on $10,000 bond with a court date set for Dec. 16.
"I am not a drug user," DeMato told the Danbury (Conn.) News-Times. "This was just a misunderstanding. It's going to be taken care of in court, and that's that."
