The Long Island Press writes that the 38-year-old Moscow beauty was arrested Tuesday as she was walking out of a New York pharmacy.

Malova was Miss Russia in 1998 and was one of the top 10 women in the Miss Universe Pageant, the paper says.

Though she is a doctor in her native country, she is not licensed to practice medicine in the United States.

The pharmacist said Malova's doctor believed Malova stole a prescription pad and wrote out phony prescriptions for painkillers. Malova was praised for being a medical doctor in her native Russia when she won the crown, but is not licensed to practice medicine here in the United States.



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