New details about the latest bizarre incident involving Amanda Bynes emerged early Wednesday on TMZ.com. According to the celebrity gossip site, Bynes soaked her Pomeranian puppy with gasoline when she started a fire outside an elderly woman’s home in Thousand Oaks, California on Monday. TMZ obtained footage of the trouble actress rushing the dog into a nearby liquor store and heading straight to an employees only area. The cashier followed her and reportedly witnessed the 27-year-old rinsing the dog off in a sink. The employee also reported smelling gasoline.
Another witness who saw Bynes at the scene of the fire said the actress told him the dog had been burned. "I saw this girl laying down right here with her left pant leg on fire. I quickly pulled over and there was this gas can right here and it's trailing fire," the man said. "Pull over, went to go help her and the flames, by then, extinguished out. She went over there to get her dog -- she had a small like Chihuahua . . . She was really frantic like she wanted to get out of there. She was like, 'My dog has been burnt.'"
It is unclear where the dog is now.
Bynes allegedly started the fire on 73-year-old Bonnie Braaten’s driveway with a can of gasoline around 8:38 p.m. Monday. Braaten told People magazine she does not know Bynes. She also said she can’t think of “anyone who would be angry with me enough to set a fire in my driveway.”
Bynes was detained by Ventura County authorities and placed on an involuntary hold for psychiatric evaluation. The Hairspray star is currently facing charges of marijuana possession, reckless endangerment and tampering with evidence for allegedly throwing a bong out a 36th floor window in a New York City apartment building. She is also facing a DUI charge in California.
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