Amanda Bynes -- 'You Want Me to Pay?' Allegedly Caught Red-Handed AGAIN

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By the TMZ Staff


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Amanda Bynes was accused of shoplifting in New York City TWICE Wednesday -- TMZ has learned she was also caught trying to swipe merch from a women's clothing store ... one hour before the Barneys bust.

According to our sources, employees at Pookie & Sebastian began following Bynes around the store because she was acting suspicious. We're told they didn't recognize it was Amanda, and just thought she was a "half-naked, homeless crackhead."

Customers tell us Bynes was dancing and muttering about plastic surgery -- but eventually she tried to bolt with a shirt stuffed between her arms. When an employee stopped her and asked if she was going to pay, Amanda said ... "Do I really have to buy this?"

The answer, of course, was yes -- and we're told Bynes was actually cooperative ... whipping out a credit card to cover the $128.

As TMZ first reported, Bynes was also nabbed by security at Barneys while trying to walk out with a $200 hat.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Heidi Parker for MailOnline and Chris Spargo for MailOnline


Amanda Bynes was seen chain smoking, pulling up her shirt and even taking off her bra on the busy streets of New York City moments before allegedly shoplifting earlier today.

TMZ claims the troubled 28-year-old actress was 'caught by security' at Barneys New York on Madison Avenue after she left the store with a $200 hat she did not pay for.

Even though staff at the luxury department store were said to have called police, the What A Girl Wants star was not taken into custody and was let go after being questioned.

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She did however agree to never return to the store again.

According to sources, the LA native was 'nabbed by security guards after she tried to leave without paying.'

Law enforcement sources claim 'she put on a $200 hat and walked out of the store and security nabbed her outside.'

Witnesses have accused the star of 'acting crazy.' Four NYPD officers were claimed to have 'arrived on scene to question her.'

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Adding more drama to the already bizarre incident, Bynes said she wanted to buy the hat, and was going to get her wallet out of the car but got flustered because a fan was snapping pictures of her in the store.

She said she had no intention of stealing.

No word if she bought the hat.

Amanda has been in New York City for less than a week and she has already been accused of talking to herself in public, looking disheveled with a bandage on her face, scratching a woman at a nightclub and wearing one shoe while inside Bloomingdale's, which is also a high-end Manhattan department store.

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She has also claimed to be engaged to 19-year-old actor Caleb who she met in rehab and has been seen wearing a diamond engagement ring.

Bynes flew to the Big Apple on Friday after she was arrested on suspicion of DUI in Los Angeles on September 28.

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The troubled Easy A actress was pulled over in the San Fernando Valley neighbourhood of Los Angeles at 4 am and taken into custody, the California Highway Patrol confirmed with MailOnline.

She was cited for being under the influence of a controlled substance while driving her Mercedes-Benz and released at 12 noon that same day on $15,000 bail.

The former child star is set to appear in court on October 23 in Van Nuys.

For the past year Lynn and Rick Bynes have been taking care of their troubled daughter by opening the doors of their Thousand Oaks, California home and overseeing her medication after the star experienced a string of run-ins with the law.

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[Hal-9000]

mental illness affects those around the person the most

and

shoplifting is UGLY (see what I did there?)

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[Hal-9000]

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[PorkChopSandwiches]

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[Goofy]

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[Muddy]

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