Shoplifting Incident
In late October 2011, she was charged with felony grand theft after being caught on video surveillance allegedly shoplifting $2,445 worth of merchandise from San Francisco's Neiman Marcus store. Prosecutors said that Hayashi had taken the items into a dressing room, put them in a shopping bag, and walked out of the store. Her attorney and spokesman have stated that she had intended to pay for the items but became distracted by a cellphone call and a snack at the cafe and inadvertently left the store without paying. According to sources close to the case, a week before the Neiman bust, a store saleswoman noticed that a dress was missing after a woman matching Hayashi's description tried it on. The saleswoman did not know who Hayashi was, but when Hayashi showed up October 25, the clerk alerted store security and they began tracking her with surveillance cameras."
Hayashi subsequently pleaded no contest to charges of shoplifting in San Francisco Superior Court, reduced from the earlier felony grand theft charges. She was sentenced to $180 fine, three years probation, and excluded to stay more than 50 feet from the store. Her attorney suggested her actions may be the result of a benign brain tumor.
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