LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors will ask a Los Angeles court to send Lindsay Lohan to jail Wednesday for violating her probation by failing to complete her required community service for stealing a $2,500 necklace, TMZ reported, citing sources.
According to various reports, the actress was expelled from a volunteer service program at the Downtown Women’s Center in Los Angeles for not showing up regularly and only staying a short time when she did.
She was moved to another program but the incident prompted some to speculate it would constitute a violation of her probation and land her back behind bars.
Sources at the LA City Attorney’s Office — which prosecuted Lohan in her shoplifting case — told TMZ on Tuesday that prosecutors will argue Lohan’s conduct amounts to a violation of her probation order
It is not known how much jail time prosecutors will ask for.
Lohan was originally sentenced to 480 hours of community service after pleading no contest earlier this year to taking a $2,500 necklace from a Los Angeles boutique.
News of the prosecutors’ plans to push for jail time came after Lohan received some unlikely support from the Los Angeles County probation office Tuesday.
The LA County Department of Probation said Lohan is in “substantial compliance” with the terms of her probation, sources told TMZ.
Lohan, 25, took to Twitter last week to blast those who were spreading negative stories about her.
“I am working hard and fulfilling my obligations every single day, to the court as well as myself. If I travel, its for work and its been approved,” she tweeted.
“I’d appreciate it if people will just let me do what is asked of me, so that I can get my life back. Please ignore the reports which have no truth to them,” she added.
In addition to doing good deeds, Lohan must undergo psychological counseling and complete a Shoplifters Alternative Course.
She spent 35 days under house arrest this summer as part of her sentence for the shoplifting offense, during which her probation officers slammed her for hosting a rooftop party for friends. Lohan was “not making an effort to cooperate … [and] not attempting to change due to her continued behavior,” they said in a report.
The troubled starlet will appear in court Wednesday morning before Judge Stephanie Sautner to review whether she has heeded the judge’s advice from July to hunker down and complete her community work.
” [You’re] not going to get five minutes more than one year to do it,” the judge told Lohan at a prior hearing, “I’m not going to take ‘Sorry, I can’t do it because I was on set of the John Gotti movie,'” she added.