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Amanda Bynes was ‘detained and taken for a mental health evaluation,’ according to police officials.
Amanda Bynes was forced to undergo a mental evaluation on Monday night, after the troubled starlet caused a commotion in a California residential neighborhood.
Ventura County police officials responded to a disturbance in a Thousand Oaks, Calif., neighborhood and took the troubled starlet into custody.
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Cops responded to a disturbance at a California retirement community involving Amanda Bynes.
“Deputies investigated the incident and determined that [Bynes] met the criteria of 5150 (California Welfare & Institutions Code),” Cpt. Don Aguilar of the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department told the Daily News.
Bynes, 27, may have inexplicably started a small fire on a person’s driveway, according to TMZ, though law enforcement officials did not specify.
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The embattled actress ‘met the criteria of a 5150’, cops said.
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“She was detained and taken for a mental health evaluation,” police said.
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The former child star reportedly refused to leave the retirement community.
A day earlier, Bynes was accused of tresspassing at a nearby retirement community, TMZ reported.
The embattled “Easy A” actress was stopped by management at the facility and reportedly became argumentative when she was denied access.
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Bynes, 27, may have been visiting family members – the cab driver told TMZ.
The former child star was accused of being drunk, and refused to leave when a cab was called for her convenience – saying she had no money.
Bynes may have been visiting a relative at the retirement community – the cab driver told the gossip site.
