Bai Ling added an arrest to her resume Wednesday after she walked out of a store at Los Angeles International Airport with unpaid magazines and batteries but she says she was heart-broken after a break-up – on Valentine’s Day, of all days.

Bai Ling was waiting for her flight to Albuquerque at Los Angeles International Airport Wednesday when she was arrested on suspicion of shoplifting two magazines and a two packets of batteries, amounting to $16.

Sgt. Jim Holcomb of the airport’s police department said Ling was detained by a store employee who summoned police; she was booked for investigation of misdemeanor shoplifting, the Associated Press reported.

The 37-year-old Chinese-born American actress was released on her own recognizance. A court appearance has been scheduled for March 5.

As the mug shot itself suggests, Ling was in a sad mood that day – and the arrest was not the sole reason, if even by far.

She told E! News that she had broken up with her boyfriend Wednesday and was feeling out of sorts. She was traveling to New Mexico where she is filming her new movie, “Love Ranch,” costarring Helen Mirren and Joe Pesci.

The unexpected and badly-timed separation made the day “emotionally crazy,” E! Online quotes her as saying. “Wrong boyfriend,” Ling concluded.

A friend confirmed to E! News that the shoplifting incident is not typical behavior for the actress. “She was kind of in a mentally unstable state of mind yesterday,” Damon Elliott, a close pal of Ling’s, said. “She had some relationship issues going on. She wasn't in the right frame of mind.”

Hey, what are friends for if not to defend your more questionable actions with an inspired phrase such as “mentally unstable state of mind?”

Ling has appeared in such films as “The Crow” and “Anna and the King” and she also appeared on television series “Lost” and “Entourage.”

The heart-broken Ling posted the following melancholy message on her personal blog that day: “Life is a sad song sometime but still sings the beauty for their loved ones.”

Photo by: LAX Airport Police