Crime History: ‘Diff’rent Strokes’ actress sentenced for robbing video store

By Scott McCabe

Published June 5, 2011 4:00am ET

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On this date, June 6, in 1991, “Diff’rent Strokes” actress Dana Plato received a six-year suspended sentence for robbing a video store at gunpoint.

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