E! Pretty Wild star Alexis Neiers, 19, made headlines this May when she plead guilty for her role in burglarizing Orlando Bloom’s home as part of the young “Burglar Bunch” that targeted celebrity homes. Neiers insisted on the show that she was just hanging with the wrong crowd and in the wrong place at the wrong time. She was sentenced to six months in jail, of which she served just one month, not-so-coincidentally in a jail cell that was right next to Lindsay Lohan’s. (They had about five days of overlap when they were both incarcerated.) Like Lindsay, Alexis was separated from the general population due to her celebrity status. Also like Lindsay, Neiers doesn’t seem to have taken her probation seriously at all. She apparently failed to check in with her probation officers for a scheduled November meeting. As a result, they came to her house and searched it, finding heroin in her purse and a fake ID from Florida. Neiers was arrested and jailed without bail. She faces three years in jail for a probation violation.
A reality TV star who was jailed earlier this year for burglarizing Orlando Bloom’s house was arrested again Wednesday after authorities say they found her in possession of black tar heroin.
Alexis Neiers was taken into custody after officers went to her home for a compliance check and found the drugs and paraphernalia, said Los Angeles County Probation Department spokeswoman Kerri Webb.
Webb said officers also found Neiers with a Florida driver’s license in another name with a false age.
The aspiring model, who was on the E! Entertainment Television show “Pretty Wild,” is being held without bail. She is being held on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia and identity theft.
The 19-year-old spent 30 days of a six month sentence in jail this year after pleading no contest to burglarizing Bloom’s house as part of a group accused of several celebrities’ home break-ins. Her court case was prominently featured on the E! show.
A call to her attorney, Jeffrey K. Rubenstein, was not immediately returned. No new court date has been set yet.
[From AP via Huffington Post]
Neiers’ mom told E! that it was all a misunderstanding, and that “She was not arrested or being charged with possession as far as I know… [Alexis] did not check into her probation meeting last month and there was some confusion over her address because she had two addresses listed for the location where she was living. They tried to reach her, and she did not respond.” She added “I am just disappointed because we don’t need to go through this ridiculousness again.” She sounds just like Dina Lohan, doesn’t she? I’ve seen a couple episodes of this show and the mom acts more like a friend to her three daughters than any kind of authority figure. I’m sure in her mind it’s all someone else’s fault that her 20 year-old daughter was robbing houses, doing heroin, and is going to be sentenced to jail for the second time this year.
Mug shot via E! Online. Love the ironic T-shirt.
