Lindsay Lohan, Stuck in France, Scores Arrest Warrant

Lindsay Lohan makes bail, arrest warrant recalled hours after it was issued

ByABC News
May 20, 2010, 8:20 AM

May 20, 2010 — -- Lindsay Lohan is a wanted woman woman no longer.

A judge has recalled an arrest warrant for the actress hours after it was issued.

Today, after missing a mandatory court hearing stemming from her 2007 DUI case, Beverly Hills Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel issued a warrant for her arrest.

Los Angeles Superior Court spokesman Allan Parachini says a bond was posted for Lohan, 23, on Thursday and the warrant was recalled.

Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel issued the warrant earlier Thursday after Lohan missed a mandatory court hearing. Bail was set at $100,000.

According to Lohan's lawyer, Shawn Chapman Holley, Lohan had good reason for not showing up to court: She's stuck in France at the Cannes Film Festival, where her passport was stolen.

"She has filled out police reports in Cannes," Holley told the judge in the California court. "She intends to fly back from Cannes at the earliest time."

Some contested Holley's claims. Cops in Cannes told TMZ.com that Lohan has not reported her passport as stolen.

Holley added that appearing in court and going to an alcohol education class prior to the hearing, a stipulation of Lohan's probation, "was her intention." But Holley might as well have blamed Lohan's absence on Iceland's ash cloud -- Revel wasn't receptive to any excuses.

"She has a history of, from her prior alcohol program, not attending. Last time she was supposed to report at 8:30, she didn't come until 10 or 10:30," Revel said at the hearing. "She should have made sure that she either didn't go to Cannes or if she went there, that she would be back two days before the hearing. If she wanted to be here, she could have been here. There's really no valid excuse."

But ever the club hopper, the starlet hasn't let her passport snafu stop her from having a good time. Wednesday, she partied on the French Riviera, clad in thigh-highs and stilettos. She reportedly jetted to Cannes to promote her latest role: 1970s porn star Linda Lovelace in the bio-pic "Inferno."

Lohan is currently in her third year of probation. In August 2007, she pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of being under the influence of cocaine, no contest to two counts of driving with a blood-alcohol level above 0.08 percent and one count of reckless driving. The plea came after a pair of high-profile arrests earlier that year.