Maria Hendricks traded in her $7,000-a-night bungalow at the Four Seasons Resort in Santa Barbara for a jail cell April 28 when deputies investigating a fraud report walked into her suite and ordered her out of the bedroom at gunpoint.
Hendricks, wearing only a shirt, complied and walked toward deputies with her hands in the air. She gave deputies a driver’s license that had her picture, but a different name and a birth date about 20 years older.
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