Former ‘Top Model’ Finalist Renee Alway Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison

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Do you recognize Renee Alway (above)? She made it to the top three during cycle 8 of America’s Next Top Model.

The 28-year-old has just been sentenced to 12-years in prison for
several criminal charges, including a break-in at Palm Springs.

via CBS LA:

She pleaded guilty to four counts of
burglary and one count each of vehicle theft and being a felon in
possession of a firearm – all felonies – and a misdemeanor count of
identity theft for crimes she committed in June 2013 in the Palm Springs
area.
Alway, who has been in custody on
$150,000 bail since her arrest last year, was also ordered to pay more
than $58,000 in restitution to the victims.
More than a dozen other counts,
including receiving stolen property, possession of a controlled
substance and resisting an officer, were dismissed under the plea
agreement.
Alway was arrested on June 28, 2013.
Officers investigating a report of a “suspicious female” in the area
found an open back door at a home in the 600 block of Violeta Drive in
Palm Springs and discovered Always hiding in the garage of the home,
Palm Springs police Sgt. Harvey Reed said. The residents were out of the
country at the time of the break-in.

How do you go from America’s Next Top model to America’s Next Top Inmate?

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