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  • Lindsay Lohan May Not Make It to Deadline; Could Get Jail

    Lindsay Lohan just might be up shit creek.

    When Lindsay Lohan was sentenced to 125 hours of community service following a 2012 Santa Monica traffic crash, it seemed like a fairly easy task to complete. But then Lindsay Lohan moved to London to work on David Mamet’s “Speed-the-Plow.” Now she is under warning that she has just a few days to complete her community service time back in the United States or she could face jail time.

    Lindsay Lohan reportedly has 115 hours of the 125 left to do. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mark Young informed Lindsay Lohan’s attorney on Thursday that she must haul her butt back to Brooklyn to complete her required community service by May 28 or face “consequences.” Prosecutors have said that they intend to seek jail time if she misses the deadline, which has already been extended once.

    “She’s had an opportunity to do this. If the court’s not going to accept this, then we have to figure out if jail is the next option,” Santa Monica City Attorney Terry White said.

    Lindsay Lohan’s attorneys say that she had arranged to complete her community service while in London, but the facility she was to work at then relocated to an hour and a half away. Originally, they had claimed she had completed her time in London, but further investigation revealed that she claimed hours served while she was, in fact, in the hospital.

    So the New York Daily News reports that Lindsay Lohan will start serving at Duffield Children’s Center in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. She will be working with pre-schoolers. But she only has 14 weekdays to complete 115 hours of service. At that rate, she would have to work eight hours a day, five days a week. If she is able to do weekend work there, that is still over six hours a day, every day through the deadline date.

    Lindsay Lohan was charged with three misdemeanors in 2013 after a 2012 reckless driving incident in California.

  • Lindsay Lohan Short On Her Community Service Hours, Could Face Arrest

    For a minute there, it seemed like Lindsay Lohan’s problems with the law are over.

    But reports that she might not have finished the extra community service hours given her could land the one-time famous actress in jail.

    The Parent Trap star is scheduled for a probation progress report on Thursday but according to Santa Monica City Attorney Terry White, the actress has done less than 20 of 125 extra community service hours.

    The additional hours of community service was tacked on her probation after White challenged the log sheet she submitted in January for her 2012 reckless driving conviction.

    “There were things she did that didn’t qualify as community service,” White explained at the time.

    The prosecutor was referring to the 28-year-old actress’ dubious claims that youth volunteers “shadowing” her and appearing in a play are considered community service activities.

    “We’ll probably ask that her probation be revoked,” Santa Monica City Attorney Terry White told the New York Daily News on Wednesday. “It doesn’t appear she’s taking it very seriously.”

    The former child star has until May 28 to complete her community service hours but White appears to be tired of giving the actress another chance.

    “She’s had more than enough opportunity to finish,” the prosecutor claims. “But she turned in some hours that were extremely suspect, that the court disallowed, and now, given the last chance of all last chances, she’s come up woefully short.”

    Lohan, who’s doing her community service through London based Community Service Volunteers, tried to make it appear that she’s busy when she posted a photo on Instagram of a stack of envelopes with the caption “Community Service – office day”.

    It’s doubtful that the prosecutor and the judge will be swayed by that pathetic attempt.

    However, in the event that the judge finally gets fed up and does issue an arrest warrant, Lohan can simply stay in London forever.

    After all, the US has no extradition treaty for a misdemeanor.

     

  • Vanilla Ice Avoids Jail by Doing What He Already Does for a Living

    Vanilla Ice Avoids Jail by Doing What He Already Does for a Living

    Vanilla Ice was arrested on February 18 of this year. Police said he took furniture, a pool heater, artwork and other items from a vacant home next door to a house that he was renovating. Vanilla Ice owns a home renovation company and has a reality TV show called The Vanilla Ice Project. Vanilla Ice claimed he had bought the home. But when police questioned his employees, it turned out that he had not actually bought the house, but was just thinking about it.

    Even more interesting is that the home he took the items from had a deceased owner.

    While the case made the papers and got him better attention than his movie To the Extreme did, it did put the future of his reality TV show in jeopardy. But now it looks like Vanilla Ice can chill out and get back to swinging a hammer for the cameras.

    Vanilla Ice appeared before Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Samantha Schosberg Feuer this week only to have a plea deal announced. His attorneys and the prosecutor struck a deal that specifies that he is to perform 100 hours of community service and pay the deceased homeowner’s estate more than $1,100.

    “I’m happy to get this resolved,” Vanilla Ice said. “I never had any criminal intent. It’s just unfortunate, but here we are. I’m moving forward.”

    The plea deal comes just in time, since his reality TV show will premier on the DIY Network this weekend. Not only is he off the hook, but he gets free press leading into the launch of the show.

    Add to that the fact that the work he will be performing couldn’t be more up his alley, and the deal is pretty sweet. Vanilla Ice’s 100 hours of community service involves building homes for Habitat for Humanity. So Vanilla Ice will be working off his plea deal doing what he likes to do anyway.

    “I’m going to do what I do anyway,” Vanilla Ice said of the plea deal. “This is an easy thing. It’s like asking the Pope to pray.”

  • Vanilla Ice Will Avoid Jail by Building Houses, Which He Already Does

    Vanilla Ice, also known as Rob Van Winkle, used to rock the mic like a vandal. Then he was arrested for robbing a house like a burglar.

    Vanilla Ice was arrested on February 18. Police said he took furniture, a pool heater, artwork and other items from a home next door to a house that he was renovating. Vanilla Ice owns a home renovation company and has a reality TV show called The Vanilla Ice Project. Vanilla Ice claimed he had bought the home. It turned out that he had not.

    The case caught minor national attention, but is now coming to a peaceful resolution. Vanilla Ice appeared before Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Samantha Schosberg Feuer only to have a plea deal announced. His attorneys and the prosecutor struck a deal that will see the celeb perform 100 hours of community service and pay the deceased homeowner’s estate more than $1,100.

    “I’m happy to get this resolved,” Vanilla Ice said. “I never had any criminal intent. It’s just unfortunate, but here we are. I’m moving forward.”

    His reality TV show will premier on the DIY Network this weekend, so the plea deal comes just in time. And the work he will be performing couldn’t be more up his alley. It involves 100 hours of community service for Habitat for Humanity.

    So Vanilla Ice will be working off his plea deal doing what he likes to do anyway.

    “I’m going to do what I do anyway,” Vanilla Ice said of the plea deal. “This is an easy thing. It’s like asking the Pope to pray.”

    Maybe they should’ve come up with something more fitting and useful. Like having him drive across the country collecting and destroying every VHS copy in existence of his film To the Extreme.

  • Lindsay Lohan May Go Back To Jail, Accused Of Lying About Completing Community Service

    Lindsay Lohan must be getting anxious. The Mean Girls star has to wait another week before prosecutors present their findings regarding her disputed community service hours to the court. A hearing that was originally set for February 18 was postponed and moved to February 25 instead. Lohan’s lawyer, Shawn Holley, talked to the press outside of the courthouse and said that their camp might be willing to negotiate with the prosecution over her 240-hour requirement for community service. However, Holley made it clear that she thinks Lohan already served that part of her sentence.

    “As far as we are concerned, she completed her community service when I presented proof of that last time,” Holley told reporters in reference to her work with the London-based charity Community Service Volunteers. “I’m open to anything that (the prosecutor) might suggest,” Holley added, implying that their camp is willing to relog some of the hours that is being contested by the prosecution.

    Holley also told the press that Lohan is continuing her work with CSV by choice because “she valued the experience and wanted to keep it going”. “She was there yesterday,” Holley said.

    Santa Monica City Attorney Terry White was not in court on February 18. In a hearing last month, White argued that Lohan was not being truthful regarding the hours she spent doing community service. One of his arguments was that Lohan managed to be able to clock in 10 consecutive hours of community service despite being hospitalized for a mosquito-borne virus she picked up in Bora Bora.

    “(A) note says she received acute care for three days, but on those three days, again, 10 hours were served,” White said last month. “I’m having trouble not only with the quality of the work but whether or not the work was actually done.” White also disputed the fact that one of Lohan’s work with CSV involved “shadowing”, where she basically hangs out with youth volunteers. For White, this cannot be considered as a form of community service.

    White said last month that jail could be back on the table if his investigation on Lohan’s community service hours yields results. “She’s had an opportunity to do this. If the court’s not going to accept this, then we have to figure out if jail is the next option,” said White. “It would be the amount of hours she did not do. It was originally 30 days.”

  • Lindsay Lohan: Is She Headed Back to Jail?

    Lindsay Lohan could be headed back to jail. The Freaky Friday and Mean Girls star has been in London for a while now, plotting a comeback and starring in a play called Speed the Plow. The trouble is, she was supposed to be fulfilling her community service obligation (for her prior reckless driving conviction) while in London. However there is no proof thus far that she’s been doing that.

    L.A. District Attorney Terry White is “expected to ask Judge Richard Stone to terminate Lindsay’s probation, and will recommend she serve jail time because of the lack of transparency regarding the completion of community service hours,” according to RadarOnline.

    Lindsay Lohan hasn’t turned in the records from her community service in London, leading officials to fear she hasn’t fulfilled her obligation.

    The D.A. “never wanted Lindsay to be able to do the hours in London, but another judge, handling the case at the time, approved it.”

    Even authorities in London haven’t cooperated with handing over Lindsay Lohan’s records to L.A. officials.

    “These were very, very basic inquiries, such as how was Lindsay monitored, who supervised her work–it does seem odd that none of that information has been sent, especially since there is a court date scheduled for February 18,” RadarOnline reports.

    Los Angles Deputy City Attorney Terry White is “expected to ask Judge Richard Stone to terminate Lindsay’s probation, and will recommend she serve jail time because of the lack of transparency regarding the completion of community service hours.”

    Lindsay Lohan could serve 30 days in jail if she doesn’t get those completed records with proof of community service in London to authorities in L.A.

    TMZ is reporting that Esurance is paying $10,000 to her community service organization, and that Lindsay Lohan wants the D.A. to believe she has served her community service by ‘raising funds’ for a London agency that benefits poor children.

    Lindsay Lohan’s lawyer is livid about the TMZ report.

    “TMZ has stooped to a new low. To take Lindsay’s positive efforts in supporting CSV and turn them into something negative simply to sell a story is offensive,” Shawn Holley said. “Lindsay has been involved in helping to raise funds for this wonderful organization since she started her community service there and she has continued her work as a volunteer, even though her community service was completed weeks ago.”

    Do you think Lindsay Lohan is once again living like the law applies to everyone but her? Or is there some reasonable explanation as to why those community service records haven’t yet surfaced in the L.A. D.A.’s office?

  • “My Boobs Are More Important Than The Law” – Model

    Sophie Dalzell is a 20-year-old topless model from Manchester, England, whom in which skipped a court date where she was charged of drunkenly assaulting two female police officers when flying to Belgium to get breast augmentation surgery back in January.

    “My boobs and my appearance are more important than the law,” Dalzell, whose job it is to appear on late night, adult TV programs, told The Manchester Evening News.

     “My career depends on it.”

    Dalzell already has 11 convictions stacked up against her, charges concerning various assaults and vandalism.

    The self-proclaimed glamour model is protesting her court-ordered 400 hours of community service. Her reasons being that picking up trash is “too hard and tiring.”

    For Dalzell, her workload consists of two workdays per week, of which she is paid $850 per photo shoot, “and the rest of the time I just chill out.” “It’s not fair”, she said, in regards to the court forcing her to clean up trash and rake leaves for free.

    The weight of carrying out community service for Dalzell is too much; she says “I hate everything about it,” and “it’s a waste of a full day and it’s just too hard for me.”

    Picking up litter is a no go for Dalzell – she instead plans to spend her summer on the resort island of Ibiza, and “deal with the consequences when I get back.”

    Dalzell already completed half of the 400 hours she was ordered to perform in 2012 for that drunken assault pre-boob job. Now that she’s over the hump, the remaining 180 hours are chipping away at her tolerance for order.

    Despite her convictions, Sophie says “I haven’t done anything wrong,” and that the courts are “just jealous” because she escaped the rural county of Cumbria and has “done something with my life.”

    Image via Twitter

     

  • Dina Lohan Sentenced To 100 Hours Community Service

    It looks like Lindsay Lohan’s mother Dina Lohan is following in her daughter’s footsteps.

    On Tuesday, during her court appearance in New York, Dina pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence of alcohol and speeding.

    Last September, Dina was stopped by a law enforcement officer for driving 77 miles per hour in a 55 miles per hour zone, in Oyster Bay, New York. She was then arrested after her blood alcohol level was checked by the officer, and measured .20 which is more than double the legal limit. Dina told the officer that she was speeding because she was trying to flee from the paparazzi.

    Dina is scheduled to be sentenced on June 3. She is expected to receive 100 hours of community service, in replace of jail time. Dina will also have to attend drunk driving classes, and pay $3,000 in fines and fees. Her license has been revoked, and an interlock device must be placed on her vehicle before she can drive. Once the device is installed, she will be able to resume driving, even though her license will still be revoked. Rather than the original nine points, Dina will only receive three on her license.

    “Considering this is the first day of Passover, we were very pleased to receive an offer which would resolve her criminal case in Nassau County with a commitment of no jail, no probation, and that afforded her the opportunity to resume her driving privileges shortly,” Dina’s lawyer Mark Heller said on Tuesday. “She felt this was a great beginning for the Holy week and she was happy with that result.”

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