police citation

Less than hours after Lindsay Lohan left the Airport Courthouse for her felony grand theft hearing and before lightening her hair at a Beverly Hills salon, the actress was pulled over by police for running a stop sign in Beverly Hills!

A source close to Lohan tells X17online she was NOT cited for the offense, though she did get a warning. The starlet tweeted at 12:10pm, "Just waved down a police officer to help me block an x17 paparazzi- thank you #LAPD!!! His pictures were not coz i got pulled over! he got punk'd."

HOWEVER, our X17 photographers interviewed an officer after Lilo was stopped and he told us that the starlet WAS pulled over for running a stop sign! Tsk tsk Lindsay -- you should know better than to lie on Twitter, especially when it comes to legal matters!

See the video below of the officer telling Lindsay what she did wrong!