Lohan facing charges over theft of necklace

US prosecutors were yesterday planning to charge Lindsay Lohan with felony grand theft of a 2,500 US dollar necklace reported stolen from a jewellery store last month – the most serious count the actress has faced in more than three years of trouble with the law.
By The Newsroom
Published 10th Feb 2011, 06:00 BST

District Attorney’s spokeswoman Jane Robison said the charge would be filed and Lohan, 24, was expected in court for an arraignment.

Los Angeles police said on February 2 that Lohan was under investigation for taking a necklace from a Venice store later identified as Kamofie and Co. Police obtained a search warrant to try to retrieve the item from Lohan’s home, but it was turned in to a police station before any search was made.

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Police said they had no update on the case and did not say whether the actress had made arrangements to turn herself in at court or at a police station.

Ms Robison said bail would be decided by a judge.

“We vehemently deny these allegations and, if charges are filed, we will fight them in court, not in the press,” Lohan’s lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley said in a statement on Saturday.

Arrested twice in 2007, Lohan was charged with drunken driving and drug possession.

The Mean Girls star has been jailed three times in that case, but has been granted a quick release due to jail overcrowding and a requirement that bail be set on misdemeanour cases.

Lohan remains on probation for drunken driving, and a judge has threatened to throw her in jail if she runs into trouble again.

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