Tattle: Warrant for Lindsay Lohan OK'd by L.A. judge

September 21, 2010|By Howard Gensler
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FOLLOWING UP on reports that Lindsay Lohan had flunked her drug test, Judge Elden Fox issued a warrant for her arrest yesterday in Los Angeles. Lindsay could wind up back behind bars but will remain free pending a Friday court hearing, according to court officials.

* Meanwhile in Las Vegas, Paris Hilton pleaded guilty yesterday to misdemeanor charges stemming from her cocaine arrest last month in Sin City.

Paris, who faced a felony drug charge, avoided jail time by acknowledging during her hearing that she had cocaine in her purse and lied to police when she was arrested.

This is a good lesson for all you other defendants out there: Admit the drugs are yours and you lied to the police and nothing will happen to you.

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This, of course, assumes you're a rich white girl with a record.

Paris will serve a year of probation under the terms of a plea deal and faces a year in jail if she is arrested for anything other than a minor traffic violation during that time.

She also must complete a drug-abuse program, pay a $2,000 fine and serve 200 hours of community service.

"The purpose of this at this point is that you change your conduct," Justice of the Peace Joe M. Bonaventure told Paris. "The Clark County Detention Center is not the Waldorf-Astoria."

During a brief news conference following Paris' exit, her attorney, David Chensoff, said his client had not received special treatment.

"She was treated like anybody else would be treated under the circumstances," he said.

* We'll see how the Las Vegas

court system treats singer-songwriter Bruno Mars, who was found with a bag of cocaine in a Vegas casino bathroom following a nightclub show over the weekend.

Mars (a/k/a Peter Hernandez) was arrested early Sunday after being detained by security at the Hard Rock. He was found with 2.6 grams of cocaine and booked on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance, police said. He faces possible felony charges.

He'll be back in court Nov. 18.

His defense: "Who gave me Paris Hilton's purse?"

An arrest report for Mars said a bathroom attendant told police he was taking a long time in a stall with a bag of white powder.

Maybe he had a rash.

The attendant alerted security, who confronted Mars as he left the stall. The guard said he asked Mars to hand over any narcotics he had, and Mars pulled a bag of coke from his jeans pocket.

(Note to stall-watchers: Cocaine is occasionally cut with a laxative, hence the lengthy time on the can.)

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