Trenyce Has a Record
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Rslover

Wednesday, April 02, 2003 - 08:12 am EditMoveDeleteIP
AMERICAN IDOL BEAUTY HAS A RECORD

. . . but it's for shoplifting!


TRENYCE is one of the finalists on American Idol. She was arrested for shoplifting in 1999 (police mug shot below).
There's one record in "American Idol" beauty Trenyce Cobbins' past that she doesn't find harmonious -- a criminal record for shoplifting hundreds of dollars worth of clothes from a clothing store!

According to court records obtained by The ENQUIRER, Trenyce -- who was booked under her real name, Lashundra T. Cobbins -- was slapped with two felony offenses: One for theft of property over $500 and another for theft of property worth $500 to $1,000.

The 22-year-old songbird's arrest came in 1999 when she was working at a clothing store in her hometown of Memphis, Tenn.

"Employees at the store told management that she and another friend who worked at the store used to pick out clothes they liked and take them out of the store without paying," said a source.

"Trenyce's co-workers said that sometimes she'd take the stolen clothes out in the trash, then go back later to pick them up, but that most of the time she'd just carry them out in her purse or a large tote bag.

"When clothing and accessories started mysteriously missing while Trenyce was working, some of the store's managers decided to launch a secret investigation.

"They had Trenyce and some of the other employees under surveillance for quite awhile before catching on to their scam."


Finally, when they gathered enough evidence to have Trenyce arrested, police moved in and took her into custody.

"Store management believes that Trenyce was well into her shoplifting spree when she was arrested, and authorities could only prove that she took hundreds of dollars worth of clothes over a long period of time," said the source.

"But employees who worked with her say by their calculations, all the missing items added up to nearly $5,000.

"She was so embarrassed, it turned her life around in a positive direction.

"Lucky for Trenyce, the Court recognized that she was just a teenager and her crime -- although very serious -- was probably just a product of falling in with the wrong crowd and making a bad decision.

"They agreed to erase her criminal record if she would attend a program and stay out of trouble."

According to Shelby County court documents, both felony charges were eventually dropped from Trenyce's record.

Tabbyking

Wednesday, April 02, 2003 - 08:24 am EditMoveDeleteIP
so i can get into trouble and blame it on falling in with the wrong crowd and making a bad decision!?
good, cause i really want that corvette convertible on the car lot!

5,000 bucks in stolen goods = 'a bad decision'? coloring your hair aubergine might be considered a bad decision....or, maybe not. we'll have to check with squared. but stealing from her employer over several weeks or months? sheesh. no wonder she changed her name.

Maris

Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 03:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Is there anybody on this show who has not gotten in trouble with the law. I have a feeling the winner will end up being the last one standing and how they carry a tune will have nothing to do with it.

Tabbyking

Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 04:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
maris, there were other posts under this topic which are now missing...so maybe the mods moved them or just deleted them (?)
but to answer your question...it's amazing that there is anyone left! i thought they screened these contestants better before they moved on as part of the group of 32. it's not as if the people didn't 'know' or 'oops! forgot!' they had something negative in their own past. the good thing is, it may keep other young people from making stupid choices that could bite them in the butt later on in life. if people were held accountable for their actions, it might help them to make the right choices all along the way.
the trenyce decision by officials that: 'she was young and made some bad choices' rubs me the wrong way. she could have chosen to do the right thing and not stolen from her employer!

Pamy

Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 05:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I hope they learned their lesson and use The Smoking Gun for background checks next year!

Squaredsc

Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 06:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
um dyeing your hair aubergine is a good idea.

Car54

Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 07:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The show did not decide that about Trenyce, the judge did. She was told to participate in a program and her record would be expunged. She did what she was asked to do. Is she supposed to never do anything positive again in her life because of it? She told the show about the past. They accepted her anyway. They made their decision and it is their decision to make.

Corey slipped through because the charges were made and his name was spelled incorrectly on the paperwork, when they checked him out he didn't come up, and he did NOT disclose the problem.

Tabbyking

Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 07:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP

i do agree that dyeing your hair aubergine is a good idea!!

Serate

Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 08:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I doubt that if Corey had told AI the truth from the beginning that he would stayed on the show. His is recent/current AND it involved physical violence. Not saying that Trenyce is any better than Corey [or Frenchie, or anybody else for that matter].

Fruitbat

Sunday, April 06, 2003 - 07:41 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Frenchie posed in lingerie, not nude, not topless when she was 19. She told producers, they had no problem.

Frenchie did not have control over the photo or where it was going to be used. It appeared on a site that ALSO showed child porn. This had nothing to do with her.

Simon already signed her.

I think it was clear that they would have eliminated Corey had he told them. Assult and resisting arrest coupled with a court date in the middle of the show was enough.