Lindsay Lohan formally charged with grand theft (Friends say she thought it was on loan)

Yahoo ^ | 2/9/11 | Dan Whitcomb - Reuters

[NormsRevenge]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Actress Lindsay Lohan was charged on Wednesday with grand theft over a $2,500 necklace that was allegedly taken from a Los Angeles jewelry store.

Lohan was scheduled to appear in court later on Wednesday for an arraignment on the single felony count.

If convicted, the 24-year-old "Mean Girls" star could be sent to prison just as she struggles to end more than three years of court appearances, failed drug tests and brief spells in jail stemming from a 2007 drunk driving conviction.

Lohan's lawyer has said that the actress denies the allegations and will fight them in court.

Friends have said Lohan believed the necklace, which has been returned to police, was on loan.

[Lazlo in PA]

If that is the necklace she stole, I blame Obummer for her trouble. This could have been a Misdemeanor charge if gold prices were not skyrocketing. If Lindsay would have stolen this during the Bush years, she could have gotten off with a stern warning. Damn Obama!

[texaschick]

That’s exactly what I thought. She seems to think her so called stardom entitles her to whatever she wants.
I imagine there would be paperwork involved with a loan of this nature. If she didn’t do the paperwork then she stole it.

[DoughtyOne]

I don’t think many of us are unaware of Lindsey’s recent record. Hearing her attorney describe her situation in sympathetic terms is hilarious.

NormsRevenge is a good person.

Frankly, I was considering making a similar comment based on her looks, although I would have gone the other way. She’s definitely a hag to me.

These people that have so much going for them, get very little sympathy from me.

My only comment on her, is that I wish she would clean up her act, for her own sake. And of course for the sake of the people who actually give a damn about her also.

[LaineyDee]

at least she has lots of friends that will visit her, and if not, she can always find some pen pals.

I'm afraid she will find that those "friends" will have no time or use for her if she's locked up. Sad... but we all get a reality check at some point in our lives. Hopefully this is hers.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Get real. If it was on loan, she would have had to sign an agreement form that included terms and conditions.

[Richard Kimball]

Agreed. Lohan is mentally unstable and in addition, the years of being enabled because she was a bankable star helped her cultivate the worst of her bad attributes.

She'll be fortunate to make it to thirty.

[DoughtyOne]

Wasn’t that a riot. Yep, this is one clueless individual.

[Freddd]

Her lawyer made her the ‘fall white gal’.

[kiltie65]

You know you are the first person I’ve heard (other than myself) that thinks that “one of a kind” necklace is a piece of crap...certainly not worth $2500. Because it is a “one of a kind” necklace and she was spotted and pictured wearing it after it went missing, she is, thus, a thief. I notice TMZ has a story today with picture on the $12,000 fur coat she lifted (mistakenly, right?) from a party goer some time back that was “settled amicably”, and a necklace worth $200,000 that went missing from her photo shoot that I don’t think ever showed up. This girl needs some stern discipline, and kept off drugs for a year or so...I would recommend incarceration...and not in some fancy rehab...jail, if I were the Judge. Might save her life.

[bigbob]

I’m really hoping she gets off lightly, it would be a shock to the popculture economy (TMZ, Perez, et al) if they didn’t have this trainwreck to write about all the time. Probably throw us back into recession and we’d all have to go steal our $2500 necklaces and stuff...

[Dr. Ursus]

She should be put in protective custody-at Charlie Sheen’s
house!

[atc23]

Lesbian

Dope Fiend

Haggard

Alcoholic

[GBA]

Someone should help her while she's still breathing and before she runs out of options.

I hate watching these very public, slow motion, celebrity suicides and the way she's going, it's not if, but when.

[Dem Guard]

Take off her makeup, give her a prison hairdo, and feed her prison food for 3+ years and she will fit right in.

[Gaffer]

I think the store owner that is making the complaint should be jailed. There is nothing even remotely $2500 about this necklace.

[freekitty]

I wish they would just lower the hammer and quit screwing around with this skank.

[stars & stripes forever]

I hope they have a good prison ministry in the jail for her.

[Renegade]

Hell, She should have stolen it in 1849 when it would be worth about $32.00

[Know et al]

When Lohan was told she was to be “formally charged”, she replied, “Should I wear an evening gown with a nice expensive necklace?”

[LottieDah]

Lohan isn’t particularly attractive and has no discernable talent. She was cute when she was little but cocaine and booze really did a number on her.