Pictured: Amanda Bynes looks disheveled in mall just hours before being placed on psychiatric hold for 'starting fire in residential driveway'
Amanda Bynes was pictured in a disheveled state just hours before she has been placed on involuntary psychiatric hold.
The 27-year-old actress was seen shopping in Bloomingdales in Santa Monica on Monday in a matted blonde wig, just a long T-shirt and flip flops.
Just hours later, she allegedly started a fire on in a residential driveway.
She was reportedly found about 9pm standing near the fire burning at a house in Thousand Oaks, California. (Pictures have emerged showing charred marks on the concrete outside the residence.)
She was questioned by Ventura County Sheriff's Department deputies who determined she needed to be hospitalized on a so-called 5150 hold, TMZ claims.
The 5150 hold is named after the California state code that allows for involuntary hospitalization for a mental health evaluation.
A person can be held against their will for up to 72 hours under such a hold.
The elderly woman who lives at the home said she had no idea what was happening until authorities knocked on her door.
Deputies asked if she knew Amanda or if someone had a vendetta against her and the woman replied no to both queries, according to TMZ.
Authorities told the woman that a young lady carrying a 'little red gas tank' had lit a fire in her driveway.
The homeowner said the deputies told her Amanda had burned a part of her own clothing.
Amanda was born and raised in affluent Thousand Oaks, which is about 35 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
She also had a run-in with police on Sunday after she was turned away from a Thousand Oaks retirement home because she appeared drunk.
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Amanda Bynes was pictured in a disheveled state just hours before she has been placed on involuntary psychiatric hold.
The 27-year-old actress was seen shopping in Bloomingdales in Santa Monica on Monday in a matted blonde wig, just a long T-shirt and flip flops.
Just hours later, she allegedly started a fire on in a residential driveway.
She was reportedly found about 9pm standing near the fire burning at a house in Thousand Oaks, California. (Pictures have emerged showing charred marks on the concrete outside the residence.)
She was questioned by Ventura County Sheriff's Department deputies who determined she needed to be hospitalized on a so-called 5150 hold, TMZ claims.
The 5150 hold is named after the California state code that allows for involuntary hospitalization for a mental health evaluation.
A person can be held against their will for up to 72 hours under such a hold.
The elderly woman who lives at the home said she had no idea what was happening until authorities knocked on her door.
Deputies asked if she knew Amanda or if someone had a vendetta against her and the woman replied no to both queries, according to TMZ.
Authorities told the woman that a young lady carrying a 'little red gas tank' had lit a fire in her driveway.
The homeowner said the deputies told her Amanda had burned a part of her own clothing.
Amanda was born and raised in affluent Thousand Oaks, which is about 35 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
She also had a run-in with police on Sunday after she was turned away from a Thousand Oaks retirement home because she appeared drunk.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...rting-residential-driveway.html#ixzz2Zu805SZ6
