LOST - RODRIGUEZ BEGINS JAIL SENTENCE

Former LOST star MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ has begun her six-month jail sentence after booking in to a Los Angeles prison on Christmas Eve (24Dec07). The actress was sentenced to 180 days in jail after violating her probation for driving under the influence. She had admitted failing to complete community service after submitting a false document to show she carried out the work on 25 September (07). The 29-year-old was also found to have consumed alcohol on at least three occasions while wearing a monitoring bracelet around her ankle, in violation of a probation requirement she refrain from drinking for 90 days. According to Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department records, Rodriguez checked in to Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, L.A. under her real name Mayte Michelle Rodriguez in the early hours of Monday.