EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Lindsay Lohan Arrives At Rehab Under Police Escort


Posted on Aug 02, 2010 @ 09:35AM  

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Lindsay Lohan arrived at the UCLA Medical Center to begin her court-ordered 90-day rehabilitation stint less than 20 minutes after she was released from the slammer — and RadarOnline.com has the exclusive video.

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Lohan's motorcade consisted of a mini-van and two marked police cars.

A black SUV followed at distance, although Steve Whitmore, the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department’s spokesman, has declined to confirm whether Lohan’s mom Dina accompanied the transport.

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Shortly after the convoy arrived at 1:54am PT, three more police cars arrived at the hospital and blocked off the entrance, as Lindsay checked into its substance abuse treatment center.

At the time, the hospital had a heavily increased security presence with both uniform and plain-clothed personnel.

Inside, the 24-year-old was placed under the supervision of the L.A. County Probation Department.

Earlier, Lohan was released from the women’s correctional facility in Lynwood, California, at 1:35am PT.

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She managed to leave sight unseen and was spirited out a back entrance.

"She has been sent directly to her next destination, which is a treatment center... this concludes her custody," Whitmore told waiting media, outside the jail.

While Lohan avoided the same infamous walk Paris Hilton made during her exit from the same jail in 2007, the Mean Girl star’s release was not without its own drama.

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In an elaborate plot to diffuse media interest, two black Cadillac Escalades drove from Lynwood to the high-end residential facility Morningside Recovery in Orange County, where Lohan had been slated to check-in.

They were followed by paparazzi, who remained camped outside the facility early Monday.

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Lohan was expected to check into Morningside until Judge Marsha Revel made a last minute change of heart over the weekend, as RadarOnline.com was first to reveal.

"There was concern that [Morningside Recovery] was not a secure enough facility," District Attorney spokeswoman Jane Robison told PEOPLE.

Robison added Judge Revel was concerned that drugs could be easily passed onto the actress.

Lohan served 13 days of a 90-day sentence for violating terms of her probation in a DUI case.

Her early release was due to good behavior and overcrowding in the L.A. jail system.

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She is required to remain clean and sober until August 2011, when her probation term ends and will be subject to a year of random drug testing.

Violation of the terms of her probation could have her sent back to jail.

UCLA has an established celebrity past: Britney Spears had an extended stay there in 2008 after first being transported there for treatment and evaluation during a 72-hour emergency hold.



NO PARTYING ON THE WAY TO REHAB? AMAZING!

by jerseynorm
Posted Mon, 08/02/2010 - 1:53pm

wowl...she won't be out until the first of november. i wish her the best and hope she can get her life back, make good decisions and focus on her career when she's out. she is a very talented actress.

by allygirl11
Posted Mon, 08/02/2010 - 12:15pm

That is so silly for the police escort wasting the tax payer money..The police time is valuable in saving somebody life,Why did they waste their time t taking a bimbo to rehab....

by starlight
Posted Mon, 08/02/2010 - 11:50am

OMG, who cares anymore about this self-entitled waste product.

by WonKyi
Posted Mon, 08/02/2010 - 11:16am

Maybe Tiger and Elin lent the state their black SUVS for the transfer?

by misspriss
Posted Mon, 08/02/2010 - 10:51am

MY tax dollar$ being paid 4 this JACKAL, lind-do do aka dumbo IS a true, true, true JACKAL!!!!

by Lizzie2
Posted Mon, 08/02/2010 - 10:30am

Damn all that security just to transfer someone from jail to the rehab center? Like if she was Hannibal Lecter. Good to see where the tax payers money is going to...and we wonder why the state of California is bankrupt.

by Angel2376
Posted Mon, 08/02/2010 - 10:23am

I hope the staff at UCLA is discreet and confidential. Lindsay needs to withdraw from her family more than from ETOH and drugs, IMO

by misspriss
Posted Mon, 08/02/2010 - 10:23am

No kidding! Hard to tell which one is more toxic than the other.

by amagod121
Posted Mon, 08/02/2010 - 9:03pm

Celebrity justice. There would have been plenty of room for any of us in jail. She could do drugs right in front of her rehab Dr. - what's going to happen to her? Another week or 2 in jail? All she learned was that she can get away w/anything.

by ybnormal2
Posted Mon, 08/02/2010 - 9:46am