Celebrity Lookalike Convinced La Police They Arrested Someone Famous

Gabrielle Bluestone, Gawker
Thu, 08/21/2014 - 10:23pm

For weeks, a man who apparently looks a bit like Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland conned the Beverly Hills Police Department into thinking it had booked a celebrity (into JAIL).Read more...

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