Teen Burglary Ring Rooted in Friendship

By PopEater Staff Posted Oct 27th 2009 03:16PM

The world is learning more about the gang of suspects arrested on suspicion of burglarizing Lindsay Lohan and other Hollywood Hills celebs. Police say the group, dubbed the 'Burglar Bunch,' may have been involved with similar heists involving Audrina Patridge, Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom and Rachel Bilson.

One of the suspects, 18-year-old Alexis Neirs, is the sister of Playboy model Tess Taylor and the subject of a reality show pilot for E!, called 'Home-Schooling With the Arlingtons.' Sources tell PEOPLE that Neirs was in the middle of filming the show when the raid occurred and cameras may have kept rolling all the way to jail.

Alexis Neirs (center) was collected from police custody by her sisters Tess (right) and Gabriella.

Neirs was arrested on Thursday night along with her high school buddies Rachel Lee and Diana Tamayo (both 19) and 18-year-old Courtney Ames. A fifth suspect, Roy Lopez, Jr., 27, was also taken into custody. According to TMZ, Lopez is a bar bouncer and his connection to the 'Bunch' is unclear.

The suspects were taken into custody in five different mini-raids that included four locations in Southern California and one in Las Vegas, police said in a statement. All were booked for investigation of residential burglary. Bail was set at $50,000 for each.

During the raids, police recovered items that were reported stolen by "well known celebrities." They also confiscated three guns and narcotics at one of the locations.

Lee was the suspect arrested in Las Vegas and law enforcement officers tell TMZ they believe she is the group's leader. Sources say "two laptops, photographs of a partially nude woman, photographs of Lee's friends, more than two hundred $100 bills, a Korean passport and a vial of marijuana" were impounded in the raid.

The four teen girls are all friends from high school, and are believed to be in cahoots with their classmate Nick Prugo, also 18, who was arrested last month on suspicion of breaking into the homes of Lohan and Patridge. Police alleged Prugo stole $170,000 in designer jewelry and clothes from Lohan and Patridge, star of MTV's 'The Hills.'

Prugo was also arrested in February for possession of cocaine, TMZ reports. He plead guilty on that charge and agreed to enter an 18-month drug diversion program.

On Monday, Neirs effectively threw her friends under the bus in an interview with E! News. She said: "I've learned my lesson that I need to make some better friends and some better decisions as far as my friends go."

TMZ: All the Latest Burglar Bunch Developments

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Tuesday 27 October

By shakesome

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A daughter who strips for a magazine for men to masturbate to... AND a daughter who's a burglar? They must have one proud papa !

By DANTE fireboy

probably dont have one.

Wednesday 28 October

By Don Howard

Don't forget the cross tattooed on the belly, and the shades at night. But we reward - with celebrity - these degenerates. Its what the Pop Easters and TMZ folks do. They live for this, and in fact PAY the paps to snap shots and annoy the celebs. We made celebrity - positive or negative - financially worthwhile for these "nothings".

By Bill

Their mugshots made them look more like 'Unsightly skanks gone comatose'. I would pay them to leave their clothes ON.

By Kim

Yeah, if they don't shoot your little penis off.

By Peter Weiss

Why can't a publicity stunt reflect an anonymous act of kindness. Yeah I know "kindness doesn't sell". That mind set is plain wrong. Kindness is hot and criminality not!!!!!

By jamesnpost

All these movies about vampires are true. These spoiled little cannibals are the real thing. They all have jewelry, nice cars, lawyers, and health care... the American success story.

By Dharma

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what i have learned is a few things about being a parent, i say more often than not, where did they get that crap from? not here, not anyone i know!

and to the child, take your responsibility, if u cant do the time dont do the adventure... and if they do or did it, i am not there to take them away, i am there to stand in watch of what is next for them to become able to be responsible.

By TTB

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That's just hot.

By Dan

Paul...you're an idiot.

By rand

What's wrong cat got your tongues? Yeah...nothing to say when these white girls goes breaking into other people places uh? Whatsup? There is simply no excuse.

By lori

get over yourself

By jstar

Huh? No tongue caught. Wrong is wrong no matter the race.

By jakdaduk

need to get these people on welfare, so they can start spitting out kids so we can keep this gene pool going, and our proud country great

By Andrew Frisina

You're going to start a forest fire that way you idiot.

Tuesday 03 November

By shawn

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I'm tired of seeing spam comments on this site, so quite leaving them! No ones interested in your crap.

Take it from someone who knows, 99% of everything on the internet doesn't work or is a scam. Start thinking of the internet as a trash bin, its only good for email, news sites, game sites, social sites, and a handful of other sites.

Nice article, I wonder what made them do this?

By Bud

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A world without Religion leads to a life of greed and deception.Even to those who do not like to hear the word Religion,God,Christ etc.You must ask yourself why ? if you do not believe then why feel and fight lie the devil against something you give no credit to as existing ? One reason,Cause God exist and Satan has taken control of this planet.Satan only has the power we give him.And between the Governments,Rappers,Movie star's,musicians.They are classless,selfish,greedy people who look down on us all. So then we get three rich girls trying to exist in Satan s world.Shameful no doubt!

By jim

WTF!!!

Friday 30 October

By DICK HEAD

Another religious kook spouts their ever ridiculous nonsense like it's all based on fact, when it's nothing more than silly stories intended to explain the unknown as well as to control the masses. Wake up and stop being brainwashed into believing something as fact just because you like the way it sounds. I wish Santa was real too, but that's not gonna happen either

By tocci

put them all on a one way flight to pakistan and let the talaban take care of them!

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