DA to charge Lohan with felony grand theft

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Source: MSNBC.com

Actress allegedly stole a $2,500 necklace from a jewelry store

Prosecutors said Tuesday they plan to charge Lindsay Lohan with felony grand theft of a $2,500 necklace reported stolen from a jewelry store last month.

District Attorney's spokeswoman Jane Robison said the charge will be filed Wednesday. She is due in court for an arraignment on Wednesday afternoon.

The charge brings the troubled star another step closer to jail. Lohan, 24, remains on probation for a 2007 drunken driving case and a judge had threatened to throw her in jail if she ran into trouble again.

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

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[JuniperLea]

1. This woman needs help...

She could have had a very good life in the lap of luxury. Too bad. She can still have a good life... but I'm betting she's put the final nail in her career coffin with this latest stunt. She is screaming for help. Very sad.

[virgogal]

3. I agree. eom

[howaboutme]

6. 200 million Americans need help too

She had it all, she was given multiple get out of jail free cards, and yet she arrogantly said to society - "fxck you". Put her worthless Hollywood axx away and throw the key away as they would have done to any of the millions of non-elitist average Americans.

We have this special justice system of perpetual forgiveness for elites and imprisonment for the serfs. We are far overdue of setting examples of egalitarian accountability.

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8. 'zactly. n/t

[JuniperLea]

11. Yeah, that too...

I was trying to be kind. You should see my bloody tongue!

[sufrommich]

14. +1 nt

[Renew Deal]

2. She's going down the wrong road.

And I have a feeling there will be some more jail time for this.

[hlthe2b]

4. That may well be penitentiary time....

Something altogether different than what she's experienced, however unpleasant, to date.


She just seems to be in a self-destructive pattern. I have to wonder if there isn't some really deep seated depression or other psychological issue at play.

I wish the press would just ignore her for a year or so. Maybe she could get through this and get her act together.

[JuniperLea]

5. Yes, some psychological issue at play...

I see this as another in a very long line of screams for help.

Maybe a serious stay at the pen, out of the eyes of the press, is just what is needed. She doesn't seem to be taking any of this too seriously. Very deep juxtaposition here between manipulation and begging to be put away.

[lobodons]

7. Earth to LiLo

When you are "on paper" different rules apply. You cannot go around as business as usual. Just get the F off paper and then you may go back to your reckless ways.

[GodlessBiker]

9. Good.

[Dappleganger]

10. Why can't she just drink and do weed like normal young people?

[obxhead]

12. She does. Fucked that up too. nt

[RocketTuna]

13. Don't we just LUUV

to moralize over young women's bad behavior?

Does anyone pause to wonder why there are all these "bad girls" getting caught doing "bad things"? Because their exposure is profitable for the media, maybe? Profitable because we still love, as a culture, to writhe in theatrical anguish around any example of female delinquency we can find?

Lindsey Lohan, Snookie, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton - their activity is nothing compared to what is occurring daily in the penthouses and boardrooms of the culture industry, from movies to news. Run largely by men. Grown adult men.

This obsessive nonsense needs to be called out for the misogynistic scapegoating that it is.

This is slut shaming. Knock it off, and then go direct your attention to some real villains.

[provis99]

19. so Charlie Sheen, Robert Downey, The Situation, and Randy Quaid don't get criticized?

You're not exactly free from prejudicial thinking yourself.

And Mel Gibson and Michael Richards, and Larry King have never been criticized for bad behavior either, have they?

[RocketTuna]

21. False Equivalency

Are they REALLY criticized like this? Are they front page news every.single.time. something happens?

Do you have whole segments of news programs dedicated to news anchors tut-tuting and pursing their lips? DO you EVER hear speculation about their parenting skills? Their own parents? The friends they hang out with? Do you have people hounding these men with cameras just waiting for them to screw up - or do we get the news brief only after they got hauled in?

Are most of the men you mentioned more powerful, and have greater actual cultural influence -beyond their criminal and pseudo-criminal actions - than the women like Lindsey Lohan?

These women exist in our cultural awareness *because of* their delinquency. They're a category that exists for the sole sake of gossip - just like the high school "slut." For an industry that already heavily under represents women in places of power and influence, and that routinely denies women full and complex representation in narrative characters, yes this means that the treatment given to Lindsey Lohan is categorically distinct from the treatment given to Charlie Sheen.

[StarsInHerHair]

15. am I the only one that thinks she may be a klepto?

and why is she STILL on probation from crap she did in 2007, when Paris Hilton did community service when she got caught with cocaine? Either way, Lohan seems permanently screwed.

[liberation]

16. If Lohan was neither white nor rich, and the theft was a pizza slice for personal consumption...

She would be in jail right now.

[customerserviceguy]

17. Spa-hab didn't help Robert Downey, Jr.

Only serious prison time did. I think this Pop Tart is about to get the parenting from the state that she never had from her sperm and egg donors.

[Kennah]

18. It ain't incest ...

... but her parents fucked her up.

[mackerel]

20. What ever happened to Winona Ryder?

[Kennah]

23. She's acting

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000213/

Had a bit part as Amanda Grayson in "Star Trek", which I loved!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000213/bio

"480 hours of community service, three years' probation, $3700 in fines, and $6355 in restitution for her arrest on shoplifting charges."

[Javaman]

22. Poor woman...

I hope she eventually gets help.

Living in a fishbowl is not for the faint of heart.

Combine that with whatever other problems is never a good combination.

Perhaps her stealing and breaking the law is the only real attention she gets.

Anyone who has worked in the entertainment field knows what I'm talking about.