On
December 12, 2001, actress
Winona Ryder was detained leaving
Saks Fifth Avenue in
Beverly Hills. Security guards (allegedly, of course) saw her snip off security tags off some merchandise with a pair of scissors and stuff it into her bag.
Beverly Hills cops arrested her for stealing that merchandise, with a sticker price of some $4,760. She was also found carrying a small number of pills of
Oxycodone, a
perscription painkiller which she apparently did not have a perscription for. She was released on $20,000
bail. On
February 1, 2002, she was formally charged with four
felony counts:
theft,
burglary,
vandalism, and posession of a
controlled substance.
An interesting new fad has popped up in recent weeks. Billy Tsangares, owner of the
Los Angeles gift shop
Y-Que Trading Post (pronounced “E-Kay”), created “Free Winona” T-shirts which are selling like his “Free
James Brown” and “Free
Pee Wee Herman” T-shirts did a decade ago. The fact that Winona is indeed free, and will be for the forseeable future did not deter many suckers, including myself, from purchasing one from his website, www.freewinona.com.
Sources: http://www.msnbc.com/news/698065.asp?cp1=1, http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020123/re/life_winona_dc_1.html