Charmed Vixen Shannen Doherty Battles the Law

The holiday season was not very merry for former 90210 star Shannen Doherty. Just two days after Christmas, the Charmed heartbreaker was spotted driving her 2001 Ford pickup truck erratically on a highway outside of Los Angeles. At approximately 3 AM that morning, she was pulled over by the California Highway Patrol, and the officers on the scene “observed subjective symptoms of alcohol.” Reports reveal that Doherty was officially arrested on “suspicion of drunk driving.” The resurgent star of one of the WB’s hottest shows, Shannen is now going to face her latest legal battle – this time involving a DUI charge.

To make an already embarrassing situation exponentially worse, Doherty unleashed an expletive-laden tirade while being processed at the police station. The outburst was so disruptive and abusive that a female officer was forced to body slam the 90210 siren to the ground in order to subdue her. Doherty was insistent that she was not drunk and physically resisted being fingerprinted until officers forced her to do so. All of this seems to fit Doherty’s profile, which was established in 1997 after the 29-year old actress was sentenced to two years probation and ordered to enroll in anger management classes after she threw a bottle at a vehicle outside a Hollywood bar.

Sources close to Doherty seem to think that this latest outburst was brought about by the recent demise of her six-year relationship with Rob Weiss, her former fiance. Apparently Shannen’s volatile behavior was too much for Weiss, who ended the relationship just before Christmas.