Lindsay Lohan and her handlers had hoped to keep her sobriety going with a special ankle bracelet that monitored her alcohol intake through her perspiration.
Instead the technology -- sometimes imposed by Los Angeles County authorities and used by other celebrities trying to go straight -- just helped chronicle her fall off the wagon.
The 21-year-old actress was arrested Tuesday after the mother of one of Lohan's assistants dialed 911 to report that she was being chased by Lohan in her SUV. The assistant had quit her job just hours before, police said.
Police said the actress failed a DUI breath test, which registered a blood-alcohol level between 0.12% and 0.13% -- over the California legal limit of 0.08% -- after police stopped her at 1:35 a.m.
While Lohan was in jail, officers found a small amount of cocaine in her pocket, said Santa Monica Police Lt. Alex Padilla.
The actress was booked on several misdemeanors and felonies, including suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol, driving on a suspended license, possession of cocaine and transport of a narcotic, police said Tuesday morning.
However, later in the day, a police press release did not include the narcotic transport allegation.
Her arrest comes just two weeks after she left a rehabilitation facility in Malibu following a DUI-related crash in Beverly Hills.
Since then, she had been seen around town and in paparazzi photos wearing the bracelet, a high-tech device known as a Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitor. It measures alcohol content emitted through perspiration and relays the information either to authorities or, in this case, her attorney, Blair Berk.
Berk, one of Hollywood's top criminal attorneys, said she monitored Lohan's alcohol level via ankle bracelet regularly and that the starlet had been doing well.
"Unfortunately, late yesterday I was informed that Lindsay had relapsed," Berk said. "Addiction is a terrible and vicious disease."
Hours later, the star of such movies as "Mean Girls" and "Freaky Friday"\o7 \f7was under arrest by Santa Monica police at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium parking lot after being found behind the wheel of a 2004 GMC Yukon. Lohan was released at 6:20 a.m. after posting $25,000 bond, police said.
Other stars, including Tracy Morgan, Eve and Michelle Rodriguez, have worn the devices under Los Angeles County Superior Court orders (Rodriguez compared it to wearing a VCR around her ankle).
