Miss Teen Louisiana Arrested, Loses Crown

BOSSIER CITY, La. — Miss Teen Louisiana lost her crown 11 days early after being arrested on charges of leaving a restaurant without paying and carrying marijuana. RPM Productions Inc., the sponsor, took back the title on Tuesday after learning that Lindsey Evans, 18, of Blanchard, had been arrested, president Paula M. Miles said Wednesday.

Evans will have to return her sash and crown, but won't have to return any other prizes or cash equivalents, Miles said.

"She's done a good job this year," Miles said.

A call to Evans' parents' house was not answered Wednesday.

Miles said she had been told that the three women with Evans told police that Evans, alone in the group, had paid her bill. But Bossier City spokesman Mark Natale said Evans admitted not paying.

Bossier City police booked all four on theft charges, three on drug charges and two on drug paraphernalia charges, he said.

Natale said Bossier City police were called to a Posados Cafe restaurant Saturday evening because a group had left without paying $46.07. The manager had found a pocketbook at the table, and police found Evans' driver's license and about 2 grams of suspected marijuana in it, Natale said.

He said officers recognized Evans from the photo when the group returned for the pocketbook.

Miles said she talked with Evans on Monday.

The next Miss Teen Louisiana will be chosen Nov. 1 at a pageant in Lafayette. Michelle Berthelot, Miss Louisiana USA 2008, will crown the winner.

Comments

[newzealandpolscistudent]

YOU'VE GOT THE WRONG GIRL ON THE MAIN PAGE!!!! PLEASE TAKE THAT PIC OFF! The pic on www.huffingtonpost.com is of the current Miss Teen USA Stevi Perry WHO HAS DONE NOTHING WRONG!

Lindsey was 3RU... wore a blue gown at Miss Teen USA...

lol

[londubh]

Quick! Someone send her more maps.

[marignymitch]

Heheheeee!

[JTJMOMEDTEK]

this is ridiculous. That guy had no business snooping through her purse. Big deal she had a little weed. She must not have been smoking it though or she would have been too paronoid to leave her purse behind.Giv­e her the crown and sash back. She's probably a nice girl.What harm did she do? really??

[newzealandpolscistudent]

She was also arrested for MIP in February..­. and trespass in June :P

[TallGrrl]

Maybe I'm mistaken..­.but...the "guy" was the restaurant manager, no?
A group of people eat and run and one of them leaves their purse.
Of COURSE you're going to look for ID.
This poor dumb girl needs to take off the crown, go sit down somewhere and get some sense.
You don't do stupid crap like that when you're a public figure. And even if you're rinky dinky Miss Teen Louisiana, you're a public figure.
What a maroon.
(Bless her heart.)

[ccrane]

That's how you get your stuff back when you leave it somewhere; I work in a public library and when someone loses a wallet or purse (happen more than you'd think) we look for ID. It's not an invasion of privacy to return their stuff to them.

Moreover, she committed a crime, and the cops would have looked in her purse when he called them anyway.

[chicago25624]

Last I looked pot was illegal. That would be 1 thing she did wrong. But hey, let's not let the laws get in the way.

[edgemo]

The restaurant manager isn't the police, and he not violating the privacy of anyone.

Just like a pug though to suggest that the rules shouldn't apply.

[DaveNorthwest]

Hey...you gotta save money and smoke a bowl in order to promote world peace!

[jahzilla]

LOL !

(Perhaps a little too revealing where Dave's sensibilities are concerned, but I won't tell.
Oh that's right . . . "Dave's not here!" Sorry.)

[supergranny]

Only in Louisiana. Bad case of the munchies huh? Dude we're too hammered to pay the bill, dude....

Back to Tractor Pull shows and Demolition Derbies.

[Bruupo]

"...let's see...I got the doggie-bag­...I got the bread from the table....I grabbed that cute salt shaker...n­o, I got everything­..."

"Yeah, I'm ready, let's do this."

[wsblake]

She can always run for vice president in about ten years- she appears stupid enough for the moronic amerikan public to elect

[seachild]

only in Louisiana!

[JoeHusseinFritzl]

Maybe she will learn her lesson after a few years in the jail.

[AggravationKills]

11 days left and she has to return her crown...fo­r dine & dash? Really?! Because there was some weed in her purse?!

Ugh! Lindsey, Call High Times, I bet they'll put you on a cover! ; )

[edgemo]

Not for theft? It's just harmless DRUGS? Can't see the big picture?

If it were you, your son/daughter or spouse who was serving them and then had to balance the till out of pocket to make up for this trash you might get it. You want to be the role model and get the prizes for looking good, and being virtuous - at least she could be lie a pug, and pretend to be virtuous.

But instead, just one more ratty, theiving bit of trash. Teen USA, at your service!

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[marymansour]

Miss Teen Louisiana acting as some teens do these days when they have brilliant mommies like Sarah Palin, Lynn Spears and the Lohan woman.

[JoeHusseinFritzl]

They are all tramps and they should all be imprisoned.

[andvoodoo2]

They dined and dashed and she LEFT HER PURSE behind?! ROFL!

[JofO]

I thought this was a story about Sarah Palin. My mistake--although it seems like something Palin would do, and then blame it on the Democrats for "gotcha" police investigating.

[qteondty]

The bad part is they choose these chicks over beautiful black girls that will walk a straight line....it is useless she has served her time as queen.