Cops, Brit's Parents Head for Casa Spears

The cops have returned to the Summit. Perhaps even more surprisingly, so have Britney Spears' parents.

Police were called to Spears' gated community Monday night, following an apparent dustup between the singer and her steady companion Sam Lutfi.

The cops, however, weren't there to referee the fight; instead, police cited several individuals for illegal parking, Los Angeles Police Department spokesman Officer Mike Lopez told E! Online.

After the LAPD sent the shutterbugs scurrying, Spears' hitherto estranged parents, Jamie and Lynne, rushed over to the house, a source close to the family told E! News exclusively.

They wanted to make sure Spears was okay, after learning from the media that their daughter had fought with Lutfi, the source said.

Spears paparazzo pal Adnan Ghalib also drove up to the tony enclave on the outskirts of Beverly Hills, supposedly at Spears' request, but was denied entry when the gate guards dialed the troubled popster's home to get her permission. 

It's unclear whether Spears issued instructions to keep Ghalib away or if Lutfi, who earlier Monday told Barbara Walters of The View that the singer was getting psychiatric treatment, was the one who gave the order.  

Ghalib told TMZ that Spears called him following a major verbal blowup between her and Lutfi that occurred at about 7 p.m. as they were driving toward her home.

"Baby, can you come pick me up?" Ghalib said Spears asked him. He then told her to wait for him inside her house and he would come to pick her up.  

Spears had jumped out of Lutfi's car just inside of the gate, where she ran head-on into the waiting flashbulbs. X17online reported that another photographer on the scene, a friend of Britney's named  Filipe Teixeira, eventually drove Spears up to her house.

The paparazzi who ended up on the wrong side of a citation had abandoned their vehicles while angling to get footage of the purported fight.

"Can you please just go away?" a tearful Spears said at one point when one photog complimented her plaid hat as she was walking away from Lutfi's car, per video shot at the scene. 

"I'm sitting for once and having a nice time with my dog!" she yelled at the paparazzi, while she was waiting for her ride to arrive.

Spears, clutching her little dog, was then videotaped getting into Filipe's SUV and the pair drove off. 

Lopez said police responded to the call, thinking that people had followed Spears into the Summit, although it turned out they were amassing outside the area. 

"Next thing you know, we were called out there to the scene to make sure everybody left," he said. "While we were there, we cited them for illegally parking their cars."

When he got there, Ghalib said, he was denied entry in no uncertain terms at Lutfi's behest. (Lopez could not immediately say if Ghalib was one of those cited by police.)

Then, around 9 p.m., Spears' parents arrived at her home—technically uninvited. But they remained there, even after the "Gimme More" singer hopped into Ghalib's car and the duo sped away a half-hour later.

E! Online learned that Ghalib gased up his Mercedes at a nearby Chevron station while Spears ran into the adjacent convenience store to use the bathroom.

"She came into the store and rushed straight to the restroom. She looked determined to get there and was really upset," empoyee Rocky Shantha said.

Spears was in the bathroom for about 10 minutes before the two sped off again. As of 11:05 p.m., the pair were motoring back to the Summit, where sources said longtime confidante Alli Sims and Jamie and Lynne Spears were still at the house waiting for her, along with Lutfi.

Family sources told E! Online earlier that Lynne and Britney spoke for the first time in at least a month on Friday, the same day the singer met with a psychiatrist. A source said that Jamie and Lynne were in town visitng their grandkids, Sean Preston and Jayden James.

—Additional reporting by Ken Baker, Tina Dirmann and Jeanifer Hwang

(Originally published Jan. 28, 2008 at 9:04 p.m. PT)