NEW YORK _ Actress Sean Young made the leap from working with pet detectives in the movies to dealing with police in real life.
New York Police Department investigators searched Friday for the co-star of the films "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" and "Blade Runner" after she and her son were videotaped burglarizing an Astoria movie production office, police said.
Young was fired by the production company months ago for drinking on the job, said one former colleague.
"I really hope she's OK," said stand-up comedian Greg Kritikos, who had a falling out with Young as the pair worked on a movie about his life this past March. "It is sad. Part of me wants to see good in people, and this is not good thinking on her behalf."
Young and her son allegedly used a key to slip inside the School of Old/Pendragon Pictures Production offices in Queens around noon on Thursday. Young, 58, allegedly ignored an offer of amnesty from the business if she returned the stolen property _ valued at $12,000.
The purported theft occurred while the film's crew was shooting in an Astoria park, with a pair of MacBooks worth $5,000 each stolen along with video production software. Young and her son remained free and were not yet charged with any crime in the heist, according to cops.
A pair of videos showed two people believed to be Young and one of her sons, in broad daylight, loading furniture and other items into the back of an SUV parked outside the office. The woman said to be Sean Young climbs behind the wheel as the pair make their getaway.
Young said Friday evening it was misunderstanding _ she believed the two laptops were hers, and that she'd left them behind when she worked with Kritikos.
"I was expected and had confirmed my expected arrival with the building's owner," Young's said in a statement issued by her publicist.
"When I arrived nobody was there to receive me, but the door was unlocked and I assumed it had been left open so that I could pick up my belongings."
In the statement, Young said she mistakenly took the wrong laptops. She said she will return the two laptops she took, and hopes to pick up the two laptops that belong to her.
The incident was just the latest public stumble for the actress, who struggled with alcoholism as her once-promising Hollywood career slowly faded into obscurity. As of Friday morning, detectives had not reached Young or her son, police sources said.
Kritikos said he sent Young a text after the burglary, giving the actress a one-hour window to return the stolen laptops with no recriminations after he and colleague Timothy Hines viewed the video. When she never responded, the two men contacted police.
"Charges have been pressed against you and your son," Kritikos wrote. "Please be smart and contact me ASAP so we can handle this wisely. The sad part of all this is you dragged your son into it."
Young complained in her statement that Hines had sent her "threatening voice mails" and making "untrue slanderous statements to the press." She said Hines "suffers from PTSD" _ why she said that is unclear. She also said she had not been in contact with police over the alleged burglary.
Young appeared destined for stardom when she landed in Hollywood. She made her mark from the early '80s through the early '90s, garnering praise for her roles opposite big stars in box office hits: Harrison Ford in "Blade Runner," Kevin Costner in "No Way Out" and Jim Carrey in "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective."
Career trouble hit amid her success, when a role opposite Oscar-winner James Woods led to Young's increasingly bizarre behavior, her arrest and a $2 million harassment lawsuit filed against her by the actor. The case was settled out of court after Woods claimed that an unhinged Young sent him and his girlfriend pictures of corpses and mutilated bodies.
Young was also notorious for donning a catsuit as she pleaded with director Tim Burton to cast her as the Catwoman in 1992's "Batman Returns." The ploy failed, and the role went instead to Michelle Pfeiffer.
Reports over the years indicated Young feuded with actors Charlie Sheen and Warren Beatty, and the actress checked into alcohol rehab following a 2008 incident where she heckled George Clooney and actress Marion Cotillard at the Directors Guild of America Awards. Yet four years later, she was busted for slapping a security guard who refused to admit an uninvited Young to an Oscar night party.
