Man Accused of Burglarizing Miley Cyrus' Toluca Lake Home

A Newbury Park man is due back in court Jan. 20 on charges stemming from a burglary at a home owned by pop singer Miley Cyrus, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced today.

Rusty Edward Sellner, 22, allegedly broke into the singer’s Toluca Lake house Dec. 16 and took personal property belonging to Cyrus and her brother, according to prosecutors.

Sellner was arrested Monday by the Los Angeles police from the North Hollywood Station and jailed.

Sellner -- who pleaded not guilty Wednesday -- is scheduled Jan. 20 for a hearing to determine if there is enough evidence to hold him for trial on one felony count each of first-degree residential burglary, grand theft and receiving stolen property,

The criminal complaint alleges that he has two convictions in Ventura County for burglary and evading arrest.

If convicted as charged, he faces up to seven years and eight months in prison, according to the District Attorney’s Office.

The case marks the second burglary in recent months involving Cyrus, but it was unclear if the burglaries occurred at the same property.

An Arizona man and woman were sentenced in September to time behind bars in a May 30 break-in at a home owned by Cyrus. Tylor Scott, then 19, pleaded no contest to residential burglary and grand theft and was sentenced to five years in prison, while Naomi Charles, then 21, pleaded no contest to residential burglary and was sentenced to one year in jail and four years probation, along with a four-year prison sentence that she won’t have to serve if she complies with the terms of probation.

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