source: radaronline
Lindsay Lohan has a history of stealing -- that's what the Los  Angeles District Attorney will tell a judge who will decide whether to  send the 
Mean Girls star to jail or not, 
RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned.
 
 Lindsay Lohan's lawyer must notify 
Judge Keith Schwartz by  Wednesday, March 23 if she plans on taking a plea deal, and  RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting that if the actress doesn't  take the plea deal, Deputy District Attorney 
Danette Meyers will include as part of her case, past incidents in which Lindsay has been accused of theft.
 
 
"There is very damaging information about Lindsay's past evidence of  thefts, including a stolen Rolex, which a friend of hers reported as  stolen last April 2010, which will be made public if Lindsay doesn't  take the plea deal. Lindsay was investigated by the Los Angeles County  Sheriff's Department last spring after a friend reported that after  leaving the Rolex at Lohan's apartment, it wasn't returned immediately.  Actually, it was quite a bit of time later that the watch was returned  to the person. The watch was valued at a whopping, 35k, and like the  current theft case, Lindsay was photographed wearing the watch. Lindsay  wasn't charged in that case because the victim became uncooperative as  soon as the watch was returned. The D.A. will be sending investigators  out from the office to talk to the victim. Meyers wants to know if there  was a financial pay off" a source close to the situation tells us.
 
 Lohan, 24, was also accused of stealing a mink coat from Maria  Markova in New York City in January 2008. Markova said at the time that  Lohan took the coat at a nightclub, 1 Oak. The coat was valued at $12k.  Markova claimed she was sitting next to Lohan at the club when the coat  was allegedly stolen. Markova said the next time she saw the coat, Lohan  was wearing it in a magazine picture. Lindsay was not criminally  charged in that incident either. "Meyers will be reviewing that  information as well. It will absolutely be brought up either at the  preliminary hearing or the trial. This will establish a pattern of  behavior on, that Meyers will prove beyond a reasonable doubt that  Lindsay is guilty in this case."
 
 "It doesn't matter that Lindsay wasn't criminally charged in those  previous incidents. Meyers can, and will subpoena police that  investigated those, and as well as the accusers if she needs to. Lindsay  has major entitlement issues, which have led her down this very dark  road. If Lindsay is smart, she will take the plea deal. Lindsay won't  know what will hit her if the case proceeds to a preliminary hearing,  and trial. Meyers is tough as nails, make no mistake about it. Lindsay  truly has no idea how bad this could get, and how fast. This could truly  ruin her career. Look at the (Winona) Ryder case, her career suffered  after the guilty conviction, and she didn't have the criminal record  that Lindsay has," the source says.
 
 Media reports circulated last week that Lindsay's probation report  could be very harmful to Lohan, but our sources tell us "that is just  implicitly false. There is nothing bad in the report, period. It's a  standard probation report. In fact, Lindsay's lawyer could use it as  evidence if the case goes to the preliminary hearing, because it's  actually good for her. It states that Lindsay is a good probationer. The  probation report doesn't include any of the past theft incidents. The  past theft incidents don't involve the probation department, Meyers is  the only one dealing with the past theft incidents, period."
 If Lindsay decides to take the plea deal, her lawyer will notify  Judge Keith Schwartz on Wednesday, and then Lohan will appear in front  of Judge Keith Schwartz on Friday.
 
 
If Lindsay doesn't take the plea deal, there will be no court  appearance on Friday. Lindsay's next court appearance would be on April  21st for her preliminary hearing on felony theft charges related to the  theft of the $2,500 necklace from a jewelry store in Venice, California.
 
 Calls seeking comment to Shawn Holley and Deputy District Attorney Danette Meyers weren't immediately returned.