Arrest Warrant Issued For Lindsay Lohan

An arrest warrant was issued for actress Lindsay Lohan, possibly in connection with a 2007 drunken driving arrest after she crashed her Mercedes-Benz into a tree, police said Saturday.

A judge at Los Angeles Superior Court in Beverly Hills issued the warrant on Friday and it carries a bail amount of $50,000, Sgt. Mike Foxen said.

"We believe it has to do with her arrest for DUI," Foxen said. He said he did not have any other details about the warrant.

"Since her case was resolved, Ms. Lohan has been in compliance with all the terms and conditions of her probation and all orders of the court. The warrant issued on Friday was, in our view, born out of a misunderstanding which I am confident I can clear up next week," Lohan's attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley, said in a statement Saturday.

The Los Angeles County district attorney's office, which prosecuted Lohan, had not been formally advised of a warrant and could not confirm that one had been issued, spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said.

However, she said a Beverly Hills court hearing for Lohan was scheduled for Monday.

The hearing "apparently has something to do with Ms. Lohan's probation," Gibbons said. "We don't know exactly what it's about. The court contacted the defense directly, not us."

Gibbons said she did not know whether Lohan would attend the hearing.

The 22-year-old star of the 2004 movie "Mean Girls" was arrested over the Memorial Day weekend in 2007 after the Mercedes accident in Beverly Hills.

She was arrested again in July after the mother of Lohan's former personal assistant called 911 to report that her car was being chased by an SUV. Lohan was at the wheel of the SUV and the chase ended in Santa Monica, where police arrested the actress.

In connection with those cases, Lohan pleaded guilty in August 2007 to two misdemeanor counts of being under the influence of cocaine; no contest to two counts of driving with a blood-alcohol level above .08 percent and one count of reckless driving.

Lohan spent 84 minutes in jail and had to perform community service and undergo drug-rehabilitation treatment.

At the time, she released a statement through her publicist that read: "It is clear to me that my life has become completely unmanageable because I am addicted to alcohol and drugs."

Lohan also was given three years of probation. The prosecutor warned the actress that she if she violated terms of the probation, Lohan could face up to a year in jail on each of the drunk-driving and cocaine charges and 90 days on the reckless-driving charge.

Violations could include failing to complete a drug test or report to her probation officer.