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Celebrities and Shoplifing: What Models, Actresses and Petty Thieves Have in Common

By Steven Rodriguez

Theft and petty crime are a major issue in America.  Over the last decade, NASA by itself has lost $94 million in office items that disappeared!  Even celebrities have been caught in petty theft, with both Winona Ryder and Bai Ling getting arrested for taking things which were not necessarily theirs. In 2002, Winona Ryder was charged of walking out of Saks Fifth Avenue with over $4,700 worth of merchandise without paying for it.  She was caught on security cameras slipping items into her purse and handbags.  She was freed on $20,000 bail which is not a tall order for the actress, but for most individuals it would mean a night or two in jail until the individual could sit before a judge. Bai Ling was arrested this year, also for shoplifting, but not at a glamorous Rodeo Drive boutique, rather at a gift shop in the Los Angeles International Airport...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on April 21, 2008 (boomark / email).