Michelle Rodriguez - 'Lost' actress to Spend Christmas in Jail

Dec 24th 2007 

"Lost" star Michelle Rodriguez checked herself into Lynwood Jail Sunday afternoon to begin serving her 180 day jail sentence for violating her probation. 

The actress was on probation for a variety of crimes, including DUI and hit and run. She violated that probation when she failed to provide proof of completion of her community service, and when she consumed alcohol three times while wearing an alcohol monitoring device. Whoops!

The judge who sentenced Rodriguez back in October specifically said that she was not be granted a work furlough, early release or home confinement and must remain in jail for the entire 180 days. Lynwood is the same jail in which Paris Hilton did her time earlier this year.

Last year, Rodriguez was sentenced to 60 days in jail, but because of overcrowding she was released the same day she went in.

[ Open Letter to Michelle Rodriguez ]

Michelle Rodriguez - Early released from jail

Thu, 10 Jan 2008

Michelle Rodriguez is the latest celebrity recipient of a get-out-of-jail-early card. 

The former Lost star was released from Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, California, Wednesday after serving just 18 days of her 180-day sentence for violating her probation in a DUI case.

Rodriguez was reportedly set free early due to overcrowded conditions at the jail, despite the fact that a judge had ordered her to serve out her full sentence with no option of work furlough, early release or home confinement.

Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Richie each served just over an hour of their respective DUI sentences at the same facility, while Paris Hilton was released 23 days into her 45-day sentence for a probation violation.

Rodriguez was handed her sentence in October, after she owned up to failing to complete her 30 hours of court-ordered community service. She also acknowledged drinking alcohol on several occasions in defiance of the monitoring bracelet on her ankle.

Over the years, Rodriguez's police file has been growing steadily thicker.

The Girlfight star was sentenced to three years' probation in 2004 after she pleaded no contest to misdemeanor DUI, hit and run and driving with a suspended license.

Her L.A.-based probation was revoked last year after she racked up a string of speeding tickets in Hawaii while filming Lost, not to mention a DUI arrest in December 2005, for which she served four days in an Oahu lockup.

In May 2006, she was sentenced to 60 days in jail for violating her probation but was released after just four hours and 20 minutes due, once again, to overcrowding.

[ Open Letter to Michelle Rodriguez ]