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“Lost” star Michelle Rodriguez reported to Lynwood jail in Los Angeles on Sunday, prepared for a 180-day jail term for probation violation, which will include the winter holidays.
Michelle Rodriguez was sentenced to six months behind bars in early October after violating her probation and checked in to Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood on Sunday, according to media reports.
According to Los Angeles County Sheriff's Dept. records, the actress checked in to the facility under her given name, Mayte, reports Reuters, as Michelle is her middle name.
Rodriguez will spend the winter holidays in jail, just as “24” star Kiefer Sutherland will; the actor began a 48-day term in another Los Angeles-area jail on Dec. 5 for drunken driving.
The 29-year-old actress was sentenced for repeatedly violating her probation, officials said at the time. She had apparently consumed alcohol on three occasions while wearing an alcohol-monitoring device and lied about completing court-ordered community service.
She was sentenced to three years' probation in L.A. in 2004 after pleading no contest to three offences: misdemeanor DUI, hit-and-run and driving with a suspended license. In 2005, she was arrested once more on another drink-driving charge, this time in Hawaii. She pleaded guilty to one charge of driving under the influence and chose to spend five days in an Oahu jail instead of doing 240 hours of community service.
As a result of violating her L.A. – based probation, Rodriguez was sentenced to 60 days in jail in 2006, but served only a few hours because of overcrowding. She was also ordered to undergo alcohol rehabilitation treatment, perform 30 days of community service and stay on probation until June 2009.
The judge that sentenced Rodriguez specified that she would not be granted work furlough, early release or home confinement.
Rodriguez joins a select roster of former Lynwood inmates: Nicole Richie, Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan. These three however were released significantly earlier than expected due to jail overcrowding and the fact that their charges were not violence-related.
The “Lost” star may be released earlier as well, People.com writes, due to jail overcrowding, despite the judge’s orders. Rodriguez may also get out early for good behavior, which is granted by state law, the website notes.
Before her portrayal of police officer Ana Lucia Cortez in the successful ABC drama series “Lost,” during its second season, Rodriguez garnered public attention and critical appreciation for her role as a teenage boxer in “Girlfight.” She has also starred in “The Fast and the Furious” and “S.W.A.T.”
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