Homeless Jesse Helt, 22, accepted Miley Cyrus’s VMA award this year in a bid to bring the issue of youth homelessness to public attention. And it worked – except now he’s been sentenced to spend six months in prison for violating his probation in 2010.
Shortly after causing a media furore by turning up to the awards ceremony with Miley, and accepting her award with a speech about the plight of homeless people everywhere, it soon became known that he was a wanted man in Oregon. Apparently, Jesse was arrested for breaking and entering the home of a man who had reportedly sold him bad marijuana, and he was given a 30-day jail sentence and probation.
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At some point after that, he stopped reporting to his probation officer, before meeting Miley Cyrus when the singer was doing a tour of Hollywood’s homeless centre My Friend’s Place. After intense media scrutiny, he turned himself in on 29 August and will now spend the next six months behind bars.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.