Hours after he was granted bail, the father of actress Lindsay Lohan violated terms of his jail release and fell from 34 feet from a hotel roof this morning while attempting to flee officers who came to re-arrest him, police said.Michael Lohan, 51, was originally tossed in the calaboose Tuesday and charged with domestic battery. He was accused of beating up his on-again, off-again girlfriend, Kate Major, at her Tampa apartment. On Wednesday, he was released after a judge ordered him to have no contact with Major.
Police were called to Major's apartment at 1:05 a.m. today because she said Lohan was harassing her with phone calls, police Lt. S.J. Lee said. While officers were at her apartment, Lohan called again and Major put him on speakerphone, police said.
Lohan asked Major how they could work things out and where she was moving to. He also told her he didn't throw the remote at her, but that he threw it at the floor. He also said he did not threaten her.
Officers went to the Tahitian Inn on South Dale Mabry Highway, where Lohan was staying in Room 307. According to the police, Lohan spotted the officers, tried to hide and then ran from them, eventually jumping from above a third-floor balcony in an attempt to escape.
Lohan "apparently leaped up from his balcony and grabbed a hold of the roof. He then must have scurried across the roof (about 30 feet) until he thought he was hanging over top of the next balcony," according to the police report.
Lohan let go but missed the balcony, the report said, and he "came crashing down on top of wooden high chairs that were laying on the ground." Police caught up with him as he was hiding among some trees.
Lohan was tossed in the calaboose and taken to Orient Road Jail. Hillsborough deputies suspected he may have broken his foot when he fell, so he was taken to Tampa General Hospital for evaluation.
Lohan is being held at the hospital overnight for observation and will not return to the Orient Road Jail today, police said.
He faces charges of resisting arrest without violence, violation of domestic violence injunction and contempt of court, according to the police report.
During a hearing Wednesday, Judge Walter Heinrich ordered Lohan to have no contact with Major. "You even dream of her, and you're going to jail," Heinrich said.
He was released from jail at 6 p.m. Wednesday. Lohan then told news hounds he was innocent and that Major makes her money by getting him tossed in the calaboose and then selling the story. Major, 28, is a former news hound for The Star tabloid.