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Heather Locklear has been charged with a misdemeanor driving under the influence in connection with her arrest in September.

Heather Locklear, in this mugshot from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Dept. in California, has been charged with driving under the influence of presciption medications stemming from her September arrest.

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The Santa Barbara District Attorney's office filed the complaint Monday, alleging that Locklear was driving under the influence of drugs, "to wit: prescription medications," Sept. 27, the day she was arrested.

That was when a celebrity news reporter called 911 to report that Locklear appeared to be driving drunk, and then took photographs of the actress' DUI arrest, the woman's lawyer told ABCNews.com.

Jill Ishkanian, a former reporter and editor at Us Weekly magazine, called police the night of Sept. 27, saying Locklear appeared intoxicated, after what Ishkanian's lawyer, Nick Tepper, described as a chance encounter with Locklear in a Montecito, Calif., market.

Ishkanian then sold the photographs through an intermediary to the celebrity news site TMZ.com for $27,500, Tepper said in a written statement to ABCNews.com.

He denied that Ishkanian was following Locklear or that she set up the star to be arrested and photographed.