Lady Gaga Dognapping: 5 Arrested, Including Woman Who Returned Dogs

Five arrests have been made over the shooting of Lady Gaga's dogwalker and theft of two of her French bulldogs in February, the Los Angeles Police Department said.

Gaga's dogwalker, Ryan Fischer, was shot by an armed robber on Feb. 24 while out walking three of her dogs. Two of her bulldogs, Gustav and Koji, were stolen during the incident, E! News reported.

Five suspects have been arrested and charged in connection to the attack, 18-year-old James Jackson, 19-year-old Jaylin White, 27-year-old Lafayette Whaley, 40-year-old Harold White and 50-year-old Jennifer McBride, the LAPD said in a press release Thursday. Three of the five suspects have been charged with attempted murder and robbery, and two as accessories after the initial crime.

One of the alleged accessories is McBride, who responded to the $500,000 reward notice and returned the singer's dogs to LAPD's Olympic Community Police Station two days after the armed robbery, police said.

Los Angeles Police Capt. Jonathan Tippet said in February that the woman who returned the dogs appeared to be "uninvolved and unassociated" with the incident. However, detectives found that McBride had a relationship with Harold, 40, the father of one of the attempted murder suspects and a documented Los Angeles gang member.

Both of them are being charged as accessories to attempted murder, USA Today reported. White also faces a charge of possession of a firearm, while McBride faces one count of receiving stolen property, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office said.

Meanwhile, Jackson, Jaylin and Whaley are being charged with attempted murder, conspiracy to commit robbery and second-degree robbery. The three suspects are Los Angeles gang members, according to the LAPD release.

All five suspects were arrested Tuesday and are each being held on $1 million bail.

Detectives believe that Fischer was not the suspects' target, according to the press release. Evidence suggested that the suspects had knowledge of the value of the dogs' breed and that this was what motivated the robbery.

"This was a brazen street crime that left a man seriously wounded," District Attorney George Gascón said in the release, as quoted by E! News. "We have alleged very serious charges in this case and have faith that justice will be appropriately served as this case unfolds in court."

Fischer was released from the hospital last month. He had a "remarkably fast" recovery after being shot in the chest by a dognapper carrying a semi-automatic handgun. Part of Fischer's lung had to be removed after the incident, but his initial recovery looked positive, based on his now-deleted post on Instagram that was obtained by BBC.

"With the chest tube removed (which I can only equate to an alien baby extraction) and my blood oxygen stable, the journey outside to recover with loved ones began," he wrote.

Fischer continued, "The journey is hard, it's assuredly painful, and questionable choices that no longer serve me like wearing skinny jeans are made. But I try. And somewhere within that I find the absurdity and wonder and beauty this life offers us all."