CRIME HISTORY: ‘Diff’rent Strokes’ actress sentenced for robbery

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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.

Plato was one of the child stars who had trouble adjusting once the 1980s hit television show ended.

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