Lindsay Lohan may be headed to jail again
FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2011 file photo, actress Lindsay Lohan poses at the Amfar charity event, part of the Fashion Week in Milan, Italy. Lohan returns to a Los Angeles court on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011 to update a judge on her progress on the terms of her probation, including community service and Shoplifter's Anonymous sessions. (AP Photo/Giuseppe Aresu, file) (Giuseppe Aresu)
A judge today will consider a request by the L.A. City Attorney's Office to jail troubled actress Lindsay Lohan on grounds that she has failed to meet the terms of her probation stemming from a case of jewelry t! heft.
The hearing coincides with reports that the actress failed to keep community-service appointments at a downtown women's shelter, was transferred to the American Red Cross as a result and now has been ordered by the judge in the case to do cleanup duty at the L.A. County morgue.
Lohan, 25, pleaded no contest May 11 to a misdemeanor grand theft charge involving a necklace priced at $2,500 that was taken from a Venice jewelry store.
She was placed on three years probation and ordered to spend 120 days in jail and complete the 480 hours of community service to which she had been previously sentenced for violating her probation in a 2007 misdemeanor DUI case.
Lohan was given one year to complete the community
service hours.In the past week, however, reports surfaced that Lohan had repeatedly failed to show up for her community service at a Skid Row women's shelter and occasionally left before working the full four hours she was expected to do each time. As a result, Lohan instead began doing community service work at the American Red Cross.
The City Attorney's Office is pushing to have Lohan sent to jail, citing her conduct at the Downtown Women's Shelter. But the Probation Department is reported to argue that Lohan has not violated probation because she still has time to complete the terms.
"She was terminated from the women's center program for failing to show up. This was one of the terms of her probation. So we will seek jail time for her," Frank Mateljan, a spokesman for the city attorney, told the Los Angeles Times before today's hearing.
Lohan was ordered in May to have her 480 hours of community service completed by April 2012. As of last week, she had completed 21 of 360 hours required at the skid row shelter for women, law enforcement sources told The Times.
Jane Robison, a District Attorney's Office spokeswoman, confirmed that because she failed to keep appointments at the women's center, Lohan was transferred to the American Red Cross.
But ! the cele brity news website TMZ.com today quoted sources connected with the Probation Department as saying the judge in the case has now contacted the department to order that Lohan be yanked from her Red Cross assignment and given 120 hours of morgue duty.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner has warned the actress in the past that she could be sent back to jail if she violates any of the terms of her probation.
On May 26, Lohan was booked at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood and immediately released to serve her jail sentence through home detention. She served about one month of home detention, with her sentence ending June 29.
Shortly before Lohan's home detention ended, Sautner chastised the actress for being photographed on the roof of her Venice home partying with friends.
The star of such movies as "Mean Girls" and "Freaky Friday" spent 13 days in a Los Angeles County jail last summer for violating her probation in the DUI case by missing multiple classes in a court-ordered alcohol education program.