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Malcolm Little also known as Malcolm X. Attempts to reclaim a stolen watch he left for repair at a Boston
jewelry store and is arrested; indicted for carrying firearms, larceny, and breaking and entering.
SECRET DOCUMENTS. 1
Mug Shot
Godfather of Soul - James Brown
In December 1988, James Brown was sentenced to a six-year prison sentence after being arrested
on several assault, drug possession, and vehicular charges. He was released on February 27, 1991.
A year later he received a Lifetime Achievement Award at that Grammy Awards.
Kiefer Sutherland
On October 9th, 2007, Sutherland pled no contest to a DUI charge and received a 48-day jail
sentence. This mug shot was taken on December 6, 2007, when he surrendered to the Glendale
Police Department to begin his jail term.
In 1970, Jane Fonda was arrested for kicking a police officer who was arresting her for a large
amount of pills she had in her possession. Charges were dropped when it was determined that the
pills were vitamins.
Lindsay Lohan
On July 24, 2007, Lindsay Lohan was arrested in Santa Monica on DUI and drug (cocaine)
possession charges and driving with a suspended license. Her arrest came just a week after the
actress was released from a 45-day residential treatment facility.
Rourke was arrested in July 1994 by the Los Angeles police and charged with spousal abuse after
he allegedly kicked and hit his wife, Carre Otis. The charges were eventually dropped.
In 1938, a 23-year-old Frank Sinatra was arrested in Bergen County, N.J. on charges of seduction
and adultery. According to the FBI reports, "On the second and ninth days of November 1938 at
the Borough of Lodi" and "under the promise of marriage" Sinatra "did then and there have sexual
intercourse with the said complainant, who was then and there a single female of good repute."
This, the charge stated, was "contrary and in violation of the revised statute of 1937." The charges
were later dismissed when it was determined that the woman involved was married.
Harding pleaded guilty in 1998 to conspiracy to hinder prosecution after she denied having any
prior knowledge of her former husband's plot, which involved hiring a hit man to attack her skating
competitor, Nancy Kerrigan.
Pop singer Michael Jackson faced charges of conspiracy to commit child abduction, false
imprisonment and extortion, three counts of committing lewd acts upon a child, attempted lewd
acts upon a child, and four counts of administering intoxicating agents to assist in the commission
of a felony. Jackson entered a plea of not guilty to the ten felony counts on April 30, 2004.
In 1972, Jagger, Keith Richards and three others were arrested on charges of assault and
obstructing justice after getting into a brawl with a photographer. The group pleaded guilty, were
released, and the charges dropped
In 1971, King was arrested for grand larceny, and pleaded no contest to one of 14 charges of
passing bad checks