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Amanda Bynes, Former Child Star, Taken Into LAPD Custody: Report

The actress was detained for a mental health evaluation over the weekend just three months after she was found wandering naked Downtown.

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LOS ANGELES, CA — Former child star Amanda Bynes was taken into the custody of the Los Angeles Police Department for a mental health evaluation over the weekend, according to multiple reports.

The star of Nickelodeon's "All That" was detained just three months after she was found wandering naked through Downtown Los Angeles. The actress has struggled with mental health issues and was taken out of receivership last year.

According to TMZ, which first reported the incident, Bynes was detained by Los Angeles Police Department officers responding to reports of a woman in distress over the weekend. She was then seen handcuffed and placed in the back of an LAPD vehicle. It was unclear if she remained in police custody Tuesday.

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In March, she was placed on a mandatory psychiatric evaluation after she was found wandering naked in Downtown Los Angeles and rescued by a passing motorist. TMZ reported that she told the driver said she was recovering from a psychotic episode, and she called 911. She was reportedly unharmed.

Patch was unable to reach a Bynes representative for comment.

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The former star of Nickelodeon's "All That," and the WB sitcom "What I Like About You" and the musical "Hairspray" has suffered from mental health issues for more than a decade and has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. She was released from about nine years of conservatorship under her mother following a string of highly publicized arrests and troubling incidents.

The issues began nearly a decade ago with a string of arrests that included a DUI case involving a 2012 collision with a patrol car in West Hollywood and another instance in which her pants caught fire while she tried to set a fire in a Thousand Oaks driveway. She also faced charges of reckless endangerment and marijuana possession in New York in a case that was later dismissed.

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