Heather Locklear Arrested After Paparazzi Tipped Off Police

A paparazzi who called 911, to report Heather Locklear allegedly driving erratically, runs a paparazzi agency and profited from images she took of the actress’s subsequent arrest. The paparazzi, Jill Ishkanian, says she called 911 because it was her "civic duty." Nicholas Teppe, the attorney for the paparazzi, said:

"The fact she witnessed Ms. Locklear’s erratic driving and reported it to the police did not mean she was disqualified from reporting the story, which she in fact did."

Ishkanian sold the photos to TMZ for $27,000. AOL, who owns TMZ, has some deep pockets.

TMZ had to buy the pictures through a third party, KM Press Group, because Ishkanian’s standing in the entertainment industry has been damaged by a $55 million lawsuit against US Weekly. That suit claims the magazine’s employees damaged her career by accusing her of stealing information from company computers. After leaving the magazine, Ishkanian helped form Sunset Photo and News, a paparazzi and celebrity reporting agency.

Ishkanian contended she took all the pictures of Locklear after she happened to run into her, but some of the pictures she sold show Locklear leaving a store well before the arrest.

CHP Lt. Dane Lobb said Wednesday that Ishkanian’s involvement would not change what was going forward as a regular DUI investigation. "We determined (Locklear) was someone who shouldn’t be operating a vehicle."