Lost actress Michelle Rodriguez pleaded guilty to DUI charges in Hawaii Tuesday.

The judge at Kaneohe District Court in Oahu offered Rodriguez, 27, a choice between 240 hours of community service or five days in jail. Rodriguez chose the jail time. She will also pay a $500 fine. Her sentence – minus one day for the night she spent in jail following her Dec. 1 arrest – began Tuesday, although Rodriguez was first allowed to go home to gather some necessities.

After her sentencing, Rodriguez, dressed in a brown leather jacket and ankle-length white ruffled skirt, apologized for her attitude toward police officers the night of her arrest (she allegedly told an officer: "I don't (expletive) belong here! Why don't you just put a gun to my head and shoot me!").

She said that her behavior was influenced by steroids she's been taking for allergies since she arrived in Hawaii. She also said she'd learned to drive only for a "racing movie" – presumably 2001's The Fast and the Furious.

Source: People

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Posted by Lawren at April 26, 2006 06:59 AM | Trackbacks (0)

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I think taking the jail sentence is admirable. Also does anyone know if she is a lesbian?

Says: hizzo at April 26, 2006 09:05 AM

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Jail time for a celebrity will be much different than jail time would be for one of us.

Says: Nanc' at April 26, 2006 09:18 AM

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she can't stand the idea of volunteering 240 hours of her time to those in need, but she had no problem endangering all those people by getting into a car drunk and acting like a raving lunatic when pulled over? I think she should have gotten the community service AND the five days in jail. Steroids, my ass. She tried to pull the "I'm a star!" crap to the cop. I find her repulsive.

Says: Cynde at April 26, 2006 04:32 PM

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I agree. Community service plus jail time.

Says: Lynne at April 26, 2006 08:48 PM

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