American Idol Star ARRESTED After Cops Find 2.9LB Heroin Stuffed In Platform Shoes

22-year-old Latin American Idol Winner Martha “La Baby” Heredia, is being held on drug charges after being arrested while allegedly smuggling heroin in the heels of her platform shoes. PerezHilton.

Police found 2.9 pounds of the drug stuffed in her shoes. A Dominican prosecutor handling the case issued a statement:

“It’s very sad that young people who have so much promise, who were bestowed by life with all the grace in the world and an unquestionable talent, because of ambition, bad advice or simply to obtain money see themselves in situations like this.”

In 2010 she killed a Haitian boy with her car and was forced to pay the family over a quarter mil in damages.

Just last month she had her husband arrested for domestic violence and he’s currently in jail.

If convicted the singer could spend up to 10 years in prison.