Teen Thieves Robbed Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Megan Fox and Others

From October 2008 until arrests were made last month, 18-year-olds Rachel Lee, Courtney Ames and Alexis Neiers, and Diana Tamayo, 19, are suspected to have broken into numerous celebrity homes, making off with millions in jewelry and designer clothing. Others have also been charged, including 18-year-old Nicholas Prugo and 27-year-old Ray Lopez, Jr. At this point, it is believed that the group targeted specific celebrities after researching them online.

In addition to Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, and Megan Fox, Audrina Patridge and Orlando Bloom are also believed to have been hit by the group of young thieves. Police believe that the group used celebrity websites and other gossip outlets to identify specific items of jewelry and clothing that they wanted to steal. Then they would use the Internet and paparazzi photos to research the best ways to break into the homes of individual celebrities.

They often found entry to be fairly easy, including in one instance where entry was gained through a doggy door. To make the story even more bizarre, one of the suspects, Alexis Neiers, is currently the subject of a reality television pilot episode about aspiring actresses in and around Hollywood.

At this point, most of the group has lawyers and most of the statements from those lawyers indicated that their particular clients were not the ones responsible for the heists. The only celebrity to have offered any comment at this point is Paris Hilton, whose publicist explained that Paris retrieved most, but not all, of what was stolen from her residence.