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Heather Locklear Charged With DUI

Locklear's Charges on Prescription Meds Stem from September Arrest

After Locklear's arrest, TMZ.com posted a gallery of photos chronicling Locklear being handcuffed and taken away by police. TMZ claims it got the photos from Marc Mann, owner of KM Press Group. According to TMZ, Mann claims Ishkanian called him after calling 911 the night Locklear was arrested.

Locklear's case was reviewed by the Santa Barbara District Attorneys Office, which had to decide whether to file charges after completing toxicology tests.

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Lt. Dane Lobb of the California Highway Patrol, the agency that arrested Locklear, would not confirm that Ishkanian had called 911 but said that the caller also gave a written and recorded statement and that he had no reason to think that she was not telling the truth.

He said the caller's motivations were irrelevant. "The facts are the facts," he said. "I don't recall asking, 'Why are you calling us.'"

Celebrity Setups

In a town where catching the rich and famous at their most vulnerable can pay off big time, some say it is not uncommon for celebrity journalists and paparazzi to attempt to set up their subjects.

In April, Jane Doe (a pseudonym) filed a lawsuit against Splash News in Los Angeles County's Superior Court alleging that two Splash photographers set up the late actor Heath Ledger at a 2006 SAG after-party at the Chateau Marmont, first luring him with cocaine and then secretly videotaping him.

In the suit, Doe, who was working as a freelance reporter for People magazine at the time, claims that she and Darren Banks, a Splash News photographer, met Ledger on the grounds of the hotel and brought him, along with another Splash photographer, Eric Munn, to a room Doe had booked for the evening assignment. According to the suit, Munn offered Ledger cocaine, and the actor already had some of his own. After that, Munn left the room.

From the balcony, Munn secretly recorded what was going on. Doe alleges she didn't know that she was being videotaped. Once Ledger realized he was being set up and allegedly discovered he was being recorded, he demanded the tape be destroyed and all parties agreed.

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