Original Blog Entry: Lindsay Lohan to be charged with felony grand theft for stealing $2,500 necklace

truesee — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 01:47:52 GMT

Lindsay Lohan to be charged with felony grand theft for allegedly stealing $2,500 necklace

Rich Schapiro

DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Originally Published:Tuesday, February 8th 2011, 3:00 PM

Updated: Tuesday, February 8th 2011, 7:52 PM

Sciulli/GettyLindsay Lohan was accused of stealing a necklace from a Los Angeles jewelry store last week.

Lowly Lindsay Lohan will make a familiar cameo Wednesday - in a Los Angeles court.

The Mean Girls actress will be hit with a felony charge for stealing a $2,500 gold necklace from a Venice jewelry shop, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office said Tuesday.

Lohan, 24, will be arraigned on a single count of felony grand theft, officials said. The spiraling starlet is not expected to be paraded in handcuffs in front of the cameras, TMZ.com reported.

Instead, she will surrender to the court and is expected to be freed on bail after her arraignment. If convicted, she could face up to three years in the slammer on the grand theft charge.

Surveillance video reportedly captured Lohan inside Kamofie Company on Jan. 22, the day the necklace disappeared. A week later, she was snapped wearing the one-of-a-kind piece.

The boutique's owner reported the theft to cops, who gave evidence to prosecutors last week. Lohan insists she took the bauble on loan and intended to return it.

Her lawyer, Shawn Holley Chapman, has denied the allegations. The new charges represent the most serious Lohan, who is on probation for a 2007 drunken driving case, has ever faced.

She is also the subject of a criminal probe involving allegations that she assaulted a worker at the Betty Ford Center.

Lohan was arrested twice in 2007 on drunken driving and drug possession charges, but both were misdemeanors.

Pictured: Lindsay Lohan wearing the $2,000 necklace she is accused of...

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