Reality TV star and Mineola native Kim Richards was arrested last weekend outside a Los Angeles Target for shoplifting.
“The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star” was found by a lost prevention officer with three shopping carts filled with $1,000 worth of merchandise, police said.
According to a report from “Entertainment Tonight,” Richards had paid for some of the merchandise, mainly toys, found in her car.
She was released Monday afternoon on $5,000 bail after spending the night in jail.
It is the second time in less than four months that Richards has been arrested.
In April, she was arrested for public intoxication, trespassing, resisting arrest and battery of a police officer after an incident at a Beverly Hills restaurant.
Richards was born in Mineola in 1964 and began her career at four months old when she appeared in a TV commercial.
She was one of the most prominent child actresses of the 1970s starring as Prudence Everett in the TV series “Nanny and the Professor” and appearing in several Disney movies.
She later starred in the short-lived series “Hello, Larry” and appeared as a guest on numerous episodes of popular television shows including “Diff’rent Strokes,” “Alice,” “Fantasy Island,” “The Love Boat,” “CHiPs,” “Magnum, P.I.,” “The Dukes of Hazzard” and “The Rockford Files.”
She recently appeared in the TV movie “Sharknado 3” and has starred on Real Housewives with her brother Kyle since the show began airing in 2010.
Her nieces are socialites Paris and Nicky Hilton.