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'Lost' actress Rodriguez sentenced again
(AP)
Updated: 2006-05-23 11:44

Actress Michelle Rodriguez, who served five days in jail in Hawaii last month for drunk driving, must serve 60 days for violating her probation with that arrest, a spokesman for the city attorney said Monday.

This photo provided by the Honolulu Police Department shows actress Michelle Rodriquez after her arrest for drunken driving in Kailua, Hawaii, in this Dec. 1, 2005 file photo. The Honolulu arrest violated the three-year probation term Rodriguez was given in Los Angeles in 2004 after pleading no contest to charges of hit-and-run, driving on a suspended license and driving under the influence of alcohol. Rodriguez was sentenced Monday, May 22, 2006, to 60 days in jail in Los Angeles for violating her probation, a spokesman for the city attorney said. (AP Photo
This photo provided by the Honolulu Police Department shows actress Michelle Rodriquez after her arrest for drunken driving in Kailua, Hawaii, in this Dec. 1, 2005 file photo. The Honolulu arrest violated the three-year probation term Rodriguez was given in Los Angeles in 2004 after pleading no contest to charges of hit-and-run, driving on a suspended license and driving under the influence of alcohol. Rodriguez was sentenced Monday, May 22, 2006, to 60 days in jail in Los Angeles for violating her probation, a spokesman for the city attorney said. [AP Photo]

Judge Rex Hesseman also sentenced the former star of television's "Lost" to 30 days of community service with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, stints with the Mothers Against Drunk Driving victim impact panel and the city's hospital and morgue program, said spokesman Frank Mateljan. She must also attend an alcohol education program.

The 27-year-old actress is scheduled to begin her jail term on May 31, Mateljan said.

A message left with her attorney, Henry Holmes, was not immediately returned.

Rodriguez was arrested in Hawaii last December on the drunken driving charge. She pleaded guilty last month.

The Honolulu arrest violated the three-year probation term the actress was given in 2004 after pleading no contest to charges of hit-and-run, driving on a suspended license and driving under the influence of alcohol, Mateljan said.

Her probation on those charges has now been extended until June 2009.

Rodriguez's "Lost" character, Ana Lucia, was killed off in an episode broadcast earlier this month. The show's producers have said that plot twist had nothing to do with her arrests.

 
 

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