Kim Richards of ‘Real Housewives’ arrested on suspicion of shoplifting

Perhaps Kim Richards was taking Target’s “Expect More, Pay Less” campaign a little too seriously?

“The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” fixture was placed under citizen’s arrest by Target loss-prevention guards Sunday afternoon when she appeared to be preparing to leave a store in Van Nuys without paying for about $600 worth of merchandise, an LAPD spokeswoman told L.A. Now. Police arrived after Richards was detained.

The 50-year-old was reportedly charged with a misdemeanor and booked into Valley Jail around 7:30 p.m. She spent the night there before posting $5,000 bail and getting released a little before 2 p.m. Monday.

The reality star was also arrested in April outside the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel after allegedly causing a drunken ruckus and then hiding in a bathroom while refusing to obey security personnel who were telling her to leave the property.

She was arraigned in early June on misdemeanor charges of public intoxication, resisting arrest and battery on a peace officer.

Richards headed to rehab about a week and a half after the April arrest, reportedly checked herself out three weeks later to attend her daughter’s wedding in Mexico, checked herself into another rehab facility at the beginning of June and told Entertainment Tonight on June 22 that she’d been sober for 30 days.

The April arrest, she told the show, “was my ‘a-ha, I get to go away now and rest and take a break from all this’ [moment]. I don’t want anybody to take this wrong, but I truly needed a break from hospitals, family, the pressure. I needed to go away.”

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