{"id":17817,"date":"2025-03-24T14:59:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T14:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=17817"},"modified":"2025-03-24T14:59:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T14:59:55","slug":"georgia-sorority-girl-who-went-viral-for-smiling-mugshot-gets-arrested-again-just-weeks-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=17817","title":{"rendered":"Georgia sorority girl who went viral for smiling mugshot gets arrested AGAIN just weeks later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smile for the camera&#8230; again!<\/p>\n<p>Lily Stewart, the University of Georgia student who shot to internet fame earlier this month for her photogenic camera-ready mugshot, is back in the headlines \u2014 this time for another run-in with the law.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old Alpha Chi sorority member was arrested again on Sunday, March 23, less than two weeks after her first high-profile booking, the New York Post reports.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart was taken into custody by the UGA Police Department around 5:26AM and charged with obstruction of a law enforcement officer and loitering\/prowling, according to jail records from the Athens-Clarke County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Both charges are misdemeanors. She was released shortly before 11:00AM after posting a bond totaling more than $4,000.<\/p>\n<p>When PEOPLE reached out to her attorney, Stephen Morris, he declined to comment on the new charges. However, Morris did confirm to The Post that her previous speeding charge from March 8 has since been dismissed.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_8118-300x234.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_8118-300x234.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_8118-768x599.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_8118.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nPhotos from Stewart&#8217;s latest arrest. Credit: Athens-Clarke County Jail Records<\/p>\n<p>Photos from her latest arrest, obtained by TMZ, show Stewart again smiling in her booking photo, this time appearing in jail garb.<\/p>\n<p>Her new mugshot quickly caught attention online, reviving interest in the college student whose first arrest unexpectedly turned her into a viral sensation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Getting booked and a good photo may be worth more than a degree,&#8221; one X user wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Another responded: &#8220;Send her to prison for a bit and her attitude will change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gets arrested twice, and then smiles about it. What a great way to represent Alpha Chi Omega,&#8221; a third tweeted.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_8119-291x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_8119-291x300.jpeg 291w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_8119-768x791.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_8119.jpeg 978w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><br \/>\nStewart seen smiling in her initial mugshot which quickly went viral. Credit: Morgan County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s hilarious. I don\u2019t know what all the hype is about. I just took a mugshot and went on with my day,\u201d Stewart previously told The Post following her March 8 arrest.<\/p>\n<p>That initial arrest occurred when Stewart was clocked \u201chitting 85 [mph] in the 55\u201d zone while driving to a friend\u2019s birthday party in Milledgeville, Georgia \u2014 a celebration being thrown by a fraternity at Georgia College &#038; State University.<br \/>\n\u201cI was going to a friend\u2019s birthday in Milledgeville, [Ga.] \u2014 and I had just gotten ready not long before, so that\u2019s maybe why my makeup and hair still looked good,\u201d Stewart said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The now-infamous mugshot \u2014 featuring Stewart smiling in full glam, blowout hair, and pearl earrings \u2014 quickly went viral, drawing in thousands of social media followers and a flood of commentary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look like a basic white girl, and I am,\u201d she told PEOPLE. \u201cI think it&#8217;s hilarious. One of them was like, \u2018We know she has a monogram rain jacket\u2019 \u2014 which I do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are some beautiful mug shots. I don&#8217;t think mine&#8217;s particularly stunning,\u201d she added. \u201cI actually think it&#8217;s a bad photo of me. If you see me in person, I don&#8217;t really look the same as I do in that mug shot. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a great photo of me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also told TMZ that she&#8217;s had dozens of guys sliding into her DMs since her arrest went viral.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lily Stewart \u2014 the University of Georgia student whose mug shot went viral \u2014 says she&#39;s got dozens of guys in her DMs, ranging from corny young dudes to old creeps \ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude33 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fYZl43zmfR\">https:\/\/t.co\/fYZl43zmfR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fVCqVMATXg\">pic.twitter.com\/fVCqVMATXg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TMZ (@TMZ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TMZ\/status\/1902473169061253425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nFollowing her initial arrest, Stewart posted a $440 bond. While that speeding case was later dismissed, the aftermath didn\u2019t go unnoticed by local law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan County Sheriff Tyler Hooks, whose office handled the earlier processing, weighed in on the incident, saying Stewart \u201ccould have hurt herself or someone else,\u201d and he hoped she had learned a lesson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s acting like the laws don\u2019t apply to her,\u201d Hooks told PEOPLE. \u201cWe should never glorify this type of behavior \u2026 I hope she doesn\u2019t get the attention like she did last time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stewart, for her part, said her lawyer \u201cgot it taken care of.\u201d She added that she\u2019s now enrolled in a defensive driving course, has committed to 20 hours of community service, and is writing a paper on the dangers of speeding.<\/p>\n<p>As of now, no additional details have been released about the events leading up to her latest arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smile for the camera&#8230; again! Lily Stewart, the University of Georgia student who shot to internet fame earlier this month for her photogenic camera-ready mugshot, is back&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17820,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17817\/revisions\/17820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}