Woman who tried to claim reward for Lady Gaga’s stolen French bulldogs is sentenced
- A dog walker was out with the star’s French bulldogs in Hollywood on February 25, 2021, when a car pulled up and two men jumped out and snatched them
- A woman who was in a relationship with the father of one of the men, took the dogs into a police station days later to claim the US$500,000 reward
The criminal case against a woman who walked into a Los Angeles police station with two of Lady Gaga’s French bulldogs days after the singer’s dog walker was shot in a robbery has come to an end.
Jennifer McBride, 52, pleaded no contest to one count of receiving stolen property and was sentenced to two years of probation, court records show.
McBride originally faced two criminal charges, but one count of being an accessory after the fact was dropped as part of the plea deal, court records show.
The dog walker, Ryan Fischer, was walking Lady Gaga’s three French bulldogs in the 1500 block of Sierra Bonita Avenue in Hollywood on February 25, 2021, when a car pulled up and two men jumped out.
Fischer resisted when the men tried to snatch the dogs, and he was shot in the chest. The assailants took two of the dogs and escaped. He was later released from a hospital.
The dogs were recovered after McBride walked into a Los Angeles police station with the two bulldogs days after the shooting.
