Lindsay leaves the Arclight Theater in LA (September 26)

Lindsay visits the Dream Center homeless shelter in L.A. (September 26)

Lindsay Lohan visits homeless teens

Lindsay Lohan’s first post-jail outing: A Los Angeles homeless shelter.

Before she returns to rehab (possibly as soon as Monday morning), the 24-year-old actress — who was released from the slammer late Friday after serving 15 hours — spent Sunday at the Dream Center, a mission and outreach center connected to the Angelus Temple in Los Angeles’ Echo Park neighborhood, E! News reports.

Hoping to improve the actress’ rocky public image, her business manager Lou Taylor, organized the trip.

“What a great place The Dream Center is here in LA…” Tweeted Lohan, who now is wearing a SCRAM device (her third of the year). “Had a nice time there today, it’s so important to give back. I feel blessed.”

source: today.msnbc.msn.com

Lindsay Lohan could be back in jail after hearing

Lindsay Lohan managed to spend only a few hours in jail Friday after failing a drug test, but experts said her legal troubles are far from over.

Superior Court Judge Elden Fox was overruled in his effort to send Lohan to jail for at least 30 days, but it’s possible he will place her behind bars after a hearing Oct. 22 about her latest probation violation.

“Judge Fox will be motivated to make a real impact on Ms. Lohan at the sentencing on the probation violation,” said veteran defense attorney Glen Jonas. “Lohan admitted to the violation in the public forum, so she is at the mercy of the court. Now Lohan is free … free to violate her bail conditions, free to pick up another criminal case and free to escape the warm embrace of sobriety.”

Jonas predicted that had Lohan done the jail time, Fox would have been inclined to set her free at the Oct. 22 hearing — particularly if she behaved well in jail.

“Judge Fox signaled loud and clear that he intended to give Lohan a sentence of ‘time served’ at the next hearing. Judge Fox was taking a stern but measured approach,” he said.

Fox ordered Lohan jailed without bail until the hearing on whether the actress should be incarcerated for using drugs in violation of her probation on a drunk-driving conviction.

It also appeared to be an effective way to skirt Los Angeles County’s early-release policy and keep Lohan incarcerated for a month. The 24-year-old actress has twice received jail sentences, but on both occasions, she served less time than ordered because of overcrowding at the women’s jail. Most female inmates serve a quarter of their sentence.

Lohan’s attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley, challenged the legality of holding her client without bail based on a probation violation for a misdemeanor, and on Friday afternoon another judge granted the actress $300,000 bail and she was able to leave jail.

Attorney Mark Geragos said it was not unusual for a judge to deny bail on a probation violation and set a hearing date to cover the time it might take to serve a full jail sentence.

“More and more judges are doing this very thing to ensure the sheriff doesn’t release the person early,” Geragos said.

Others said Fox was treating Lohan differently than other defendants.

“She neither presents a danger to the community nor is she a flight risk,” said L.A. defense attorney Mike Cavalluzzi. “Those are the primary criteria for either denying bail or setting an appropriate amount of bail, especially given that this is a misdemeanor.”

The star of “Freaky Friday” and “Mean Girls” was processed out of the Century Regional Detention Facility about 11:40 p.m. Friday. She was whisked out of a back door and driven to an undisclosed location.

In posting bail, Lohan must agree to conditions, including wearing a SCRAM alcohol- and drug-detection device, refraining from being in areas where alcohol or drugs are being consumed, and being subject to immediate search by law enforcement.

source: latimesblogs.latimes.com

Lindsay at Beverly Hills courthouse (September 24)

Lindsay Lohan – “Caught Doing Heroin” Allegedly

CROUCHING in a dark corner, Lindsay Lohan is poised to inject herself with what appears to be a syringe of heroin.

Our shocking picture shows the troubled Mean Girls star wrapping a tourniquet around her lower arm – the method addicts use to raise a vein.

Her right hand hovers the needle over the skin of her left arm.

In other exclusive images, apparently taken at a sleazy Hollywood bash, she snuggles up to party pal Paris Hilton before sharing a passionate kiss with her fellow wildchild.

Our horrifying revelations will compound fears about the extent of LiLo’s breakdown – as she was returned to jail this week for a third time. Lohan, 24, was released on friday night following her 15 hours behind bars after posting £190,000 bail.

This was a result of her failing a court-ordered drugs test for cocaine, which was in breach of her probation stemming from a 2007 conviction for drink-driving and cocaine possession.

This is the first time there has been evidence that Lohan may have been dabbling in harder drugs like heroin, which is commonly injected.

Our source said: “These images of her with the syringe are terrifying.”

In the startling new photos, the Hollywood hellraiser appears to play with the tip of the drugs needle – and then plays with heiress chum Paris.

The pair paw at each other before Paris straddles Lindsay and strokes her face. Lohan, revealing a bra strap and cleavage, then wraps her arms around the neck of Paris, now 29.

Speaking about the pictures, believed to have been taken in 2007, our source said: “What no one knows for certain is just how often Lindsay does drugs – or exactly which drugs she does.

“Lindsay has made no secret of her drug addiction. People are used to seeing her off her head.”

Previously, the News of the World revealed shocking snaps of Lohan posing with US TV host Vanessa Minnillo – as she jokingly held a knife to her neck while LiLo bit the tip of another blade.
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Lindsay Lohan plans to return to rehab

Although she relapsed just weeks after checking out of UCLA inpatient rehab on Aug. 24, Lindsay Lohan is serious about her recovery, a source close to the actress says.

“She will step up her treatment and do more than what she was previously ordered to do,” says the source, adding that Lohan, 24, plans to voluntarily check herself back into rehab in the coming days.

The actress was released from a Lynwood, Calif., jail late Friday night after winning an appeal to be granted bail following a failed drug test.

For now, Lohan has been ordered to wear a SCRAM alcohol-monitoring bracelet and must avoid places “where alcohol is the chief item of sale.”

She faces a probation violation hearing on Oct. 22, where she could potentially face more jail time for the positive drug test in her ongoing DUI case.

source: people.com

Lohan freed from LA jail after posting bail

Lindsay Lohan was freed from a suburban Los Angeles jail late Friday night, well short of the nearly monthlong stay a judge had intended for the actress following a failed drug test.

Lohan was released at about 11:40 p.m. after posting $300,000 bail, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Steve Whitmore said early Saturday.

Celebrity website TMZ.com reported her release just before midnight.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Elden Fox had ordered Lohan held without bail during a brief hearing Friday morning, But his ruling later was overturned after the “Mean Girls” star’s attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley, filed a late-afternoon appeal seeking bail.

Judge Patricia Schnegg, who is an assistant supervising judge of LA’s criminal courts, issued a ruling shortly before 6 p.m., saying that since the starlet had been convicted of misdemeanors, she was entitled to bail.

The actress is not entirely free. She will be required to wear an ankle alcohol monitor and stay away from establishments that primarily sell alcohol.

She is also due back in court on Oct. 22, when the judge who curtly sent her to jail will decide what her punishment will be for failing a drug test roughly two weeks after he released her early from rehab.

At that hearing, Fox will formally determine whether Lohan, 24, violated her probation by failing a court-mandated drug test. The positive result came after the judge released Lohan early from inpatient rehab at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

Fox did not say why he had ordered no bail for the actress Friday morning, or state what drug appeared in her system during the recent test.

Friday marked the third time Lohan has been sent to jail in a three-year-old drug and drunken driving case. She spent 84 minutes at the jail in 2007 and 14 days of a three-month sentence earlier this summer.

After news of her positive drug test broke last week, Lohan seemed to acknowledge an addiction problem on her Twitter feed.

“Substance abuse is a disease, which unfortunately doesn’t go away over night,” Lohan posted on Twitter on Sept. 17. “This is certainly a setback for me but I am taking responsibility for my actions and I’m prepared to face the consequences.”

Fox had laid out a strict 67-day course of counseling, substance abuse meetings, monitoring and drug testing for Lohan in August. He asked probation officials on Friday to report how the actress had progressed on the treatment programs before Lohan’s next court hearing.

The judge has said Lohan would be sent to jail for 30 days for each drug screening she skipped or failed and appeared to make good on the promise with his no bail order.

If he sentences her to jail in October, the amount of time he orders her to serve would be whittled down because of jail overcrowding and various credits.

Despite her release Friday, Lohan’s continued court troubles have cast a pall over her career. She has been slated to star as Linda Lovelace in a biopic about the porn star, but the production schedule already was altered when Lohan was sent to jail in July.

In an e-mail sent before Lohan was granted bail, Matthew Wilder, the writer-director of the film titled “Inferno,” said the film’s producers “want her to do well.” He did not address whether Lohan’s role would be recast or the film further delayed.

source: news.yahoo.com