Troubled Liz & Dick actress will likely be charged with third-degree assault, sources said. She was released by the NYPD on Thursday morning and is due back in court on Jan. 11. Cops took Lohan into custody about 4 a.m. after the smack-spat with Florida woman at the 10th Ave. hot spot.
November 29, 2012: Lindsay Lohan leaves the police precinct in New York City after being arrested at approximately 4 am for allegedly punching a woman at Avenue nightclub in the meatpacking district.
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Lindsay Lohan left a New York City police stationhouse with a coat over her head early Thursday. The trouble doll was arrested, yet again, on Thursday morning for an alleged assault inside a Chelsea nightclub. Cops say the Liz & Dick star smacked Tiffany Ava Mitchell while they were inside Avenue in Manhattan.
It didn't take a crystal ball to see this one coming: Lindsay Lohan is looking at more jail time.
The bicoastal bad girl was busted yet again Thursday for sucker-punching a Florida psychic inside a Manhattan nightclub that had once banned the perpetually troubled former star.
“I need space,” Lohan allegedly declared before slamming a fist into palm reader Tiffany Mitchell — who had reportedly offered the actress a free “reading” inside the VIP lounge at Chelsea hotspot Avenue.
Hours later, LiLo was accused of lying to California cops about a June 8 crash in which her black Porsche slammed into a dump truck on the Pacific Coast Highway.
The legal daily double came after the Tinseltown train wreck and her posse tried to dodge police investigating the predawn Manhattan punch-up, sources told the Daily News.
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The oft-arrested actress slipped out the club’s back door and into an alley leading to W. 17th St. — only to have her bruised victim identify the fleeing star to cops, sources told The News.
“That’s her,” said the tourist as Lohan — sitting in the front passenger seat — tried to escape in a black Cadillac Escalade around 4 a.m.
Officers moved in and blocked Lohan from zipping off. The 26-year-old “Mean Girls” star was stunned as cops slapped on the handcuffs.
“Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me?” she said, according to TMZ.com. Lohan, due back in court Jan. 7, was charged with misdemeanor assault as she continued to wear out her New York welcome.
Santa Monica police later added three misdemeanor counts of their own: lying to an officer, obstructing an officer in the course of his duties, and reckless driving.
Lohan — already jailed briefly five times — could land behind bars again.
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Tiffany Ava Mitchell, right, who was allegedly punched by Lindsay Lohan in a Manhattan nightclub, leaves the 10th Precinct early Thursday morning.
Lindsay Lohan was arrested Thursday after an alleged fight at Avenue. The venue sits at 116 10th Ave in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood.
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A California judge will consider whether she violated probation by either the alleged West Coast lies or the East Coast assault.
The probation stems from Lohan’s theft of a $2,500 necklace at a Venice Beach jewelry store. Lohan pleaded guilty in 2011 for walking out of Kamofie & Co. with the piece around her neck.
Lohan, due to prison overcrowding, has typically spent mere hours in lockup — including a 2007 stay of just 84 minutes.
La Lohan, star of the widely panned TV biopic “Liz & Dick,” was brought to the 10th Precinct stationhouse in her clubbing clothes: Leggings, a form-fitting green miniskirt and high heels.
Tiffany Ava Mitchell at her West Palm Beach business in 2009.
She used her one phone call to contact her attorney, sources said — and he wasted little time in defending his repeatedly rehabbed client.
“Once again, Lindsay Lohan is a victim of someone trying to capture their 15 minutes of fame,” said Lohan lawyer Mark Jay Heller , who later insisted his his client was not smashed when she slugged Mitchell.
“I can tell when I was with her this morning she was in great condition,” Heller told E! News. “She was certainly not intoxicated, certainly not under the influence of drugs.”
The husband of puffy-faced victim Mitchell said Lohan launched an unprovoked attack on his wife and then tried to skip out before the NYPD arrived.
Mitchell, of Palm Beach, Fla., was with hubby Wayne Stevens, 37, and another couple when a scuffle broke out at a nearby table.
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Lindsay Lohan was partying at Avenue nightclub before she was arrested early Thursday. This photo was taken inside the club.
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Lindsay Lohan flees an NYPD stationhouse early Thursday after she was arrested for smacking a Florida woman, Tiffany Ava Mitchell, while they were inside a VIP section of Avenue in Chelsea.
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Lindsay Lohan, seen here at a Beverly Hills event to promote her TV movie, 'Liz & Dick,' has reportedly been arrested in New York City after getting involved in a fight.
According to police sources, Mitchell, 28, moved away from the dispute in an attempt to protect herself. She instead strolled into Lohan’s line of fire, the sources said.
Lohan, according to some reports, was incensed because singer Max George of boy band The Wanted was ignoring her in favor of the blond Mitchell.
But her husband said Lohan lashed out for no reason, with Mitchell taking a shove from behind and then a single bop to the left side of her face.
“She pushed my wife pretty hard, and I don’t know why (Lohan) pushed her,” Stevens told The News. “She comes around and told my wife, ‘I need space’ . . . and then she just punched her.”
TMZ also reported Mitchell offered the free psychic consultation, but Lohan snubbed it. That’s when she walked away and called Mitchell “a f---ing Gypsy.”
Mitchell’s friend stood up for the victim, allegedly prompting the actress to punch the psychic.
Stevens denied that part of the TMZ account.
Stevens said he called 911 as Lohan scurried from the club. The actress, whose night began at a Justin Bieber concert at Madison Square Garden, later rushed past paparazzi outside the stationhouse with a coat covering her head.
Avenue had previously banned Lohan after she tweeted a salacious bit of gossip about Justin Timberlake on a night when both were at the club.
Lohan’s father, Michael, in a text to Daily News Confidenti@l, said he wasn’t surprised by his daughter’s arrest — and laid the blame at ex-wife Dina’s doorstep.
“Again, it’s ALL on Dina,” he wrote.
“She is in a dark place,” he said of his frequent verbal sparring partner. “It’s in God’s hands and I hope he deals with her appropriately.”
There was no sign of Lohan at her mother’s Merrick, L.I., home, but Dina Lohan released a statement hours after the latest public spectacle.
“As a mother, you always love and pray for the best with all your children,” she said. “Our family’s bond grows deeper and stronger during the tough times.”
The charges on both coasts capped the latest woes for the increasingly erratic former child star — including a September scuffle with a congressional aide and a bizarre October blowout with her mom.
Lohan, who has struggled with sobriety for years, finished her latest stay at the Betty Ford Center in January 2011.
Source: http://www.nydailynews.com
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