Gilligan's Island star Dawn Wells was caught by police with "four half-smoked joints" in her vehicle while driving home from her surprise birthday party, in Idaho, on October 18, 2008.

1. Born: October 18, 1938
2. Birthplace: Reno, Nevada
3. Birthname: Dawn Elberta Wells
4. Played Mary Ann Summers on sitcom Gilligan's Island
5. Gilligan's Island aired on CBS from 1964 to 1967

Wells failed a sobriety test, and was later sentenced to five days in jail and placed on probation, but after a plea bargain, she pled guilty to a prior charge of reckless driving, and the marijuana counts (all misdemeanors) were dropped. Her sentence was changed to six months of unsupervised probation.