Chatham County Sheriff Al St Lawrence says his office did nothing wrong in the case of a man who is a reported stalker of Miley Cyrus. He says the man, 53 year old Mark McLeod was arrested by Tybee Island Police last month and booked on two misdemeanor charges. St Lawrence says the man was released the day after his arrest. “If we had heard something about this guy supposedly being a stalker or he had been charged with a felony he wouldn’t have been released,“ St Lawrence tells us.

St Lawrence was reacting to a story in Wednesday’s Savannah Morning News, which indicates that McLeod often shows up at events involving Cyrus, including a book signing in March in New York and that police in Los Angeles, California say McLeod’s arrest on Tybee violated a court order in Los Angeles County and they wanted to have McLeod taken into custody on their behalf. Los Angeles police tell us they they “became aware that McLeod was arrested on June 22, but would not tell how how they found out that information. A spokesperson from LAPD says a detective “then requested the police report from Tybee Island so he could have the information and be prepared in case McLeod tried to contact Cyrus in our jurisdiction.“ The spokesperson would not tell me if has arrested McLeod in the past for stalking or any other charge.
A police report from Tybee Island Police says on June 22 McLeod was arrested as he stood with a crowd watching the filming of Cyrus’s movie “The Last Song.“ They say McLeod was making “inappropriate comments” to some of the young females present and that when approached, McLeod became beligerant, started screaming and fought officers who tried to arrest him.

The report also goes on to outline comments Tybee Island police say McLeod made to them saying he was “great friends with Cyrus and she had asked him to come and see her.“

The report indicates that McLeod said he had “been camping at Tybee for three or four days and that he had observed Cyrus on her balcony, that he sent her special presents and that he was going to marry Cyrus and even invited the police officer to the wedding.“

St Lawrence says no one at his office was given the incident report from Tybee Police which he says is standard procedure and that most municipalities don’t provide those reports to the jail and if they do it is often “days after the arrest.“

Sheriff St Lawrence says “if this man really is a stalker, yes this would be a concern, but again we were told nothing about any of the comments that McLeod made to Tybee Island arresting officers. And even if we had been told, it wouldn’t have mattered because he was charged with two non-violent misdemeanors and we acted accordingly.“

Tybee Island Police would not comment to us about any of this. St Lawrence did tell us that if “the arresting officer feels someone is unbalanced or in need of mental health attention, that officer can take them to Memorial Health for an evaluation or set things in motion to have them evaluated at Georgia Regional. “We had no indication of any problems on the morning he was released,“ St Lawrence told us.

Tybee Island’s police report does indicate that when McLeod was arrested he stated to booking personnel that he was “Miley Cyrus’s boyfriend and they should contact her before we waste all this time.“

St Lawrence does acknowlege that jail overcrowding was one factor in McLeod’s release on the morning of June 23. “We have to look at who is charged with violent offenses and every day, figure out who we can let out. We aren’t doing anything different than any other county in Georgia, we’re all having to make these kinds of decisions.“

St Lawrence told us that while overcrowding played some role that “if this guy had had $148 dollars he could have bonded out that day regardless of how many people had been housed in the jail that morning.“

McLeod was released on what St Lawrence called a subpoena signature with the promise to appear in court on September first. His whereabouts are now unknown.

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Demi Lovato may have recently split with Trace Cyrus, but she finds time to chat to her best friend – his sister, Miley – every day.

And what does the 16-year-old call Miley in those chats? “Dragon.” She tells the September issue of Sugar magazine (her first cover shoot in the U.K.) the nickname comes from “our fave film, Step Brothers.” She adds the megastar has “given me so much advice” to help her cope with fame.

“Recently she sent me this four-page text message encouraging me and telling me she has faith in me. It was so inspiring and made me feel great – because I do get a bit overwhelmed by the paps sometimes.”

As for her other celebrity pals, the Jonas Brothers, Lovato says, “Everyone asks me if I fancy them but I totally don’t!”

She can afford a joke now about the attention she gets, but it wasn’t so easy a few years ago. She says the bullying she endured at school stemmed from her new-found fame. “I opened a show for JoJo once and the next day my class passed round a petition to ‘Get Demi Out,’ and then handed it to me. It was pretty devastating.”

“But the final straw was when I was chased into the toilets by girls threatening to punch me. I was so scared I called Mom – we decided I’d stay at home after that. But it made me more focused on writing my music and spurred me on to want success.”

She has been home-schooled since then, but she adds that she would like to go to college one day.

Lovato’s first steps on the road to fame were at a school talent show when she sang Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On from Titanic. “[It was] a pretty daring choice, I’m sure you’ll agree! Mom still describes that performance as ’sweet’ – so I’m pretty sure she means I was awful!”

She still gets plenty of support from her family. “I get really emotional every time I have to leave them to go on tour, but luckily Mom and Dad take it in turns to go with me. I miss my sisters so much.”

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Awwwww, puppy love!

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman’s 14-year-old son fell hard for Miley Cyrus while he was on the set of her hit Disney show Hannah Montana. Connor, who played Will Smith as a boy in last year’s Seven Pounds, wants to be an actor.

“Tom thought it would be a good experience for him to see how other performers around his age work,” an insider tells Star. “It started as business — but Miley was so sweet, Connor couldn’t help having feelings for her!”

While Miley, 16, told Elle magazine that she thinks Connor is “really cute,” the younger man shouldn’t get his hopes up. After dumping 20-year-old boyfriend Justin Gaston, Miley hooked back up with ex Nick Jonas, 16!

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Miley Cyrus might just be a teenager, but that doesn’t stop the Disney star from having grown-up taste when it comes to fashion. For the August issue of Elle, the Hannah Montana star goes high fashion glam and dishes on everything from her new clothing line with Max Azria to her crooked teeth.

The star tells Elle of her new Walmart collection with Azria, “Literally this is going to be good for, like, Middle America, and it will be great for kids that really want to be in fashion but that don’t have it available.”

The collaboration will hit Walmart stores in early August, but Miley is already playing favorites, citing the jeans as her “favorite part of the entire line.” Although, when it comes to denim shopping for herself, the young star knows no limit, “I would pay $500 for the jeans that we make for $20. I’m really into high fashion.” And with a glamorous life filled with premieres and parties, it’s almost hard not to be. “The most fun thing about prom is having that one special night when you dress up and you feel like a princess, and honestly, I get to do that one night a lot,” says Miley.

But, even though she is a superstar, she still has to listen to her parents. “My dad won’t let me fix my teeth or cut my hair. He loves it. He’s like, ‘It’s you!’” says Miley, who has no problem with her dad’s rules. “I like these crooked. I love my teeth.

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Miley Cyrus is telling her BFF’s she’s soooo glad she never got too physical with 20-year-old ex-beau Justin Gaston.

Despite all her “I’m a big girl now” posturing, Miley’s saying she remained “pure” during their 10-month romance.

“Miley is so relieved she saved herself,” said a close pal. “Even though she was crazy about Justin, deep down she wasn’t sure he was the one, and stayed true to her convictions.”

That should take the pressure off, eh, Miley?

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According to sources, Billy Ray Cyrus wants to make sure that Miley is behaving herself behind the wheel of her Prius.

He’s trying to get a car monitoring device on her car to keep track of how fast she’s driving, whether or not she’s tailgating, and safety belt alerts. It’s also a GPS device, so he’ll know exactly where she’s at at all times.

He reportedly told her, “It’s not because we don’t trust you. It’s more because we really care about you.”

How many times have we heard that before….but we know it’s really because he doesn’t trust her.

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Having maintained a low profile since the death in January of her and husband John Travolta’s 16-year-old son, Jett, Kelly Preston is quietly doing movie work, assuming her role as the mother of Miley Cyrus’ character in the coming-of-age film, The Last Song, say news reports.

Shooting is taking place in Savannah, Georgia. Greg Kinnear is also in the cast, playing an estranged father.

Preston, 46, will also be seen this November in Old Dogs with Matt Dillon and Robin Williams. Travolta, 55, did not participate in the recent promotion of his current film with Denzel Washington, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 but expressed his appreciation to those on the production who, he said on his Web site, “stepped up without hesitation to help promote this wonderful film … their unselfish efforts have allowed my family the additional time to reconcile our loss.”

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