Michael Lohan Phones in Another Arrest

Lindsay's ever estranged father is booked on criminal contempt charge after violating restraining order by calling ex-girlfriend...again

Bad decisions clearly run in the Lohan family. As do (alleged) repeat offenses.

Lindsay's ever estranged father—who, as per usual, denied any wrongdoing to E! News—was once again arrested in New York yesterday morning after violating a restraining order against him by calling his ex-girlfriend, Erin Muller, at work.

When will people (and by people, we mean Michael Lohan) learn: Michael Lohan and phones do not mix.

Muller's attorney, Bryan Konoski, told the New York Post that the violation occurred on Jan. 21, when Lohan breached the order of protection by dialing his ex-lady friend.

Lohan, however, denied the sequence of events to E! News, claiming that it was not only Muller who called him on his cell phone, but that she phoned him a second time, on Jan. 27, and apologized.

As his audio recorder is almost always at the ready, Lohan says he even taped the second call for defense purposes.

"She lied," he said. "I never called her. She has no proof.

"I called my attorney and he advised me not to do anything. He in turn called Erin's (liar) lawyer, Bryan Konoski, who asked my attorney not to do anything. We agreed! However, hours later, Erin went to the police department and lied to them telling them that I called her.

"With no recording, no witness, no proof whatsoever, and only on her word, I was arrested."

Lohan was ultimately booked with criminal contempt for the indiscretion—as it happens, the second time in as many months that he's allegedly erred on the side of illegality in his troubled relationship.

Back in December, he was arrested for phoning Muller and faced the exact same charge, while as far back as last April he was arrested for making a series of threatening phone calls to his ex.

Gee, can't imagine why she let this catch go.

In the latter instance, Lohan was accused of threatening suicide if Muller left him and while he denied the allegations, a judge said he would hold off prosecuting him on an aggravated harassment charge if he managed to stay out of trouble for a year.

It's times like these it would really help him to keep a calendar handy.

Lohan is due back in court to face the new charge on Feb. 25.

—Additional reporting by Ken Baker

(Originally published on Jan. 29, 2010 at 7:03 a.m. PT)