Los Angeles (CNN) -- Lindsay Lohan checked into a California rehab center early Friday, ending -- at least for now -- a drama that has had more twists and turns than a high-speed car chase. 
 
 Shawn Holley, the lawyer who guided Lohan through years of legal turmoil until the actress abruptly fired her in January, helped her avoid jail once again by brokering a deal, her father told CNN Friday. 
 
 "I am so thankful to Shawn Holley and Evan Haney, her manager, for doing this," Michael Lohan said. 
 
 While he wouldn't name the California facility his daughter entered, he noted it is a rehab program she's been in before. 
 
 The actress underwent three months of court-ordered substance abuse rehab at the Betty Ford Clinic at the end of 2010, but she was in legal trouble again weeks later -- facing a shoplifting charge that led to her current woes. 
 
 Lohan, 26, "wants to settle in" for a few days while arrangements can be made to transfer her to the Lukens Institute in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, which bills itself as a "luxury rehab center," Michael Lohan said. 
 
 "The Lukens Institute is where she wanted to go all along -- a place she will get the right treatment and finally get better," Michael Lohan said. 
 
 Santa Monica City Attorney Terry White, who must approve any transfer, has not responded to CNN calls for comment. 
 
 The actress was supposed to start a 90-day stint in a "lockdown" rehab center Thursday, an alternative to a three-month jail term for two misdemeanor convictions and a shoplifting probation violation finding in March. But she abruptly left the Southern California facility where she had gone Thursday morning because "she was not happy with the place," her father said. 
 
 Michael Lohan said he was not happy with it either because of the revelation that the facility -- Morningside Recovery in Newport Beach -- can't provide alcohol and drug rehab treatments because California officials revoked its license. 
 
 "If a 24-hour residential facility is providing treatment or services to promote the recovery of alcohol and drug abuse then they must possess a license," said Millicent Tidwell, deputy director for the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs. 
 
 None of Morningside's several locations in California are licensed, Tidwell said. The company previously had three licenses, but all were revoked. The state's licensing agency is in litigation with Morningside's unlicensed Newport Beach facility, she said. 
 
 It's unclear whether Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James Dabney knew Morningside was unlicensed when Lohan's lawyer, Mark Heller, informed him in court Thursday morning that she would spend her rehab sentence there. 
 
 White objected at Thursday's hearing, saying Heller didn't get prior approval for Lohan to go to Morningside. White said he needed time to investigate it. 
 
 "Lindsay had no idea that Morningside wasn't approved," Michael Lohan said. 
 
 Heller has not respond to several CNN requests for comment. 
 
 The judge ordered the treatment after Lohan entered pleas of no contest on charges relating to a traffic accident and, with those convictions, she was found in violation of her shoplifting probation. 
 
 Her six years of legal troubles trace back to two drunken driving arrests in 2007 and include other incidents in which she was behind the wheel. 
 
 Lohan was charged with reckless driving and lying to a police officer about a June 2012 car crash in which her Porsche hit a dump truck on the Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica, California. Her arrest triggered the probation violation charge. 
 
 The police report said Lohan denied being behind the wheel, but the prosecutor was expected to call witnesses who say she was driving. 
 
 Lindsay Lohan acknowledged her drug and alcohol addiction in past court appearances. 
 
 She's spent 250 days in five rehab facilities since January 2007, including one long court-ordered stint after a failed drug test. 
 
 The actress has appeared in court at least 20 times before four Los Angeles judges who have now found her in violation of probation six times and sentenced her to a total of nine months in jail. 
 
 Lohan has spent about two weeks behind bars in six trips to the Los Angeles County jail, served 35 days under house arrest and worked about 67 days of community service at the county morgue. 

 Lindsay Lohan checked into California's Betty Ford Center rehab facility late Thursday, dodging arrest after whirlwind confusion surrounding the actress' whereabouts, sources told the Daily News. 
 
 It's the same place the troubled starlet sought help in 2010, where she got into a physical altercation with a staffer. Laywer Shawn Holley — who Lohan convinced to return Thursday night — worked "all night" to get the actress into Betty Ford, the sources said. 
 
 Lindsay Lohan was spotted a few miles from Morningside rehab center in Newport Beach, Calif., where she is planning to spend a 90-day stint. (EXCLUSIVE PHOTO: Splash News) 
 
 "I just found out she's okay," dad Michael Lohan said. "According to the judge and the city attorney's orders, Lindsay has checked into rehab. I will not and can not disclose where, but it was no thanks to Mark Heller." 
 
 Lindsay Lohan is pictured spending her last day before she enters rehab in the SoHo area of New York City with her friends and family. (Splash News) 
 
 Earlier Thursday, prosecutors expected Lohan to check into Morningside Recovery in Newport Beach, Calif. Even as her lawyer, Mark Heller, told Los Angeles County Judge James Dabney that she was safely "in the bosom of" the facility, his client made him look like a fool. 
 
 Lohan has rehired lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley, who convinced the starlet to check into Betty Ford Thursday night. (Toby Canham/ Getty Images) 
 
 Turns out LiLo drove to the vicinity of the facility, but she never went in. Instead, she went shopping at an electronics store in Fountain Valley, Calif. 
 
 Police arrive at Morningside Recovery in Newport Beach where Lindsay Lohan is checked in. (Max/X17online.com) 
 
 And a source told the Daily News that when she bolted, Lohan threatened to fly back to New York. 
 
 Lindsay Lohan pictured at LAX airport on April 18. (Giovanni/Splash News) 
 
 Then it was Daddy Dearest, Michael Lohan, to the rescue. 
 
 Lohan posted an Instagram photo of herself packing '270 looks' for her 90-day rehab stint. (Lindsay Lohan via Instagram) 
 
 “The (prosecutor) called me to get in touch with Lindsay, who was headed to get on a flight to New York,” her father told The News. “I stopped her from getting on and told her she’d be arrested in New York. 
 
 Mark Heller presented the judge with a letter from the CEO of Morningside Recovery Thursday morning. (Blue Wasp/Splash News) 
 
 “She said, ‘Daddy, how can they arrest me?’ I got her just before she left,” Papa Lohan said. 
 
 Lohan will reside at the Betty Ford Center for the next 90 days. (Eric Thayer/ Getty Images) 
 
 The actress’ dizzying day of drama had prosecutors on the verge of asking for an arrest warrant, but they backed down on Friday. 
 
 "Ms. Lohan fulfilled her obligation to enroll in a rehab facility on May 2nd, so this office will not be seeking an arrest warrant from the court today," Santa Monica City Attorney Terry White told The News. 
 
 "This office in the next week will be performing our due diligence to make sure the program complies with the probation terms." 
 
 Another source said a member of Lohan’s entourage was making last-minute demands late Thursday — regarding guests and cell phone usage — that may have jeopardized her ability to formally enroll at Morningside, which doesn't allow guests in patient rooms or the use of cell phones. 
 
 Lohan initially agreed to check into the Seafield Center on Long Island but had a change of heart Tuesday after mulling it over with her old man, a former “Celebrity Rehab” patient. 
 
 “I told her it’s like a motel, and you share a room and have a plastic shower curtain. You can’t smoke, you can’t leave the property. She said, ‘What?!’ ” Michael Lohan revealed. 
 
 Lohan freaked and took a private jet from New York that arrived early Thursday. 
 
 ndillon@nydailynews.com, mgarvey@nydailynews.com and bhutchinson@nydailynews.com 

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– Lindsay Lohan's attorney told a judge yesterday that she was safely "ensconced in the bosom" of a California rehab facility, but she actually never checked in. For a while, as the AP reported, her whereabouts were unknown; she ended up checking into a different California facility late yesterday, TMZ reports. Apparently Lohan spent just a few minutes at Morningside Recovery in Newport Beach, which was already a last-minute switcheroo from the New York facility she originally chose. Morningside had not been approved by prosecutors and it's not licensed for residential in-patient rehab—a problem since Lohan was supposed to be at a lockdown facility. Lohan "was not happy with the place," dad Michael says of Morningside, according to CNN. "Lindsay had no idea that Morningside wasn't approved." So she ended up at Betty Ford, hours before prosecutors were set to seek an arrest warrant. (The Rancho Mirage facility is the same one where Lohan was accused of brawling with a staffer in 2010.) She also re-hired her old attorney, Shawn Holley, who negotiated the Betty Ford deal for her with the Santa Monica city attorney; now the judge just needs to sign off on it, which he is expected to do. Bizarrely, the New York Daily News spotted her wandering around an electronics store yesterday; that paper says she wanted to fly back to New York, and according to the quotes it got from Michael Lohan, Lindsay really has no grasp of the way the legal system works: "She said, 'Daddy, how can they arrest me?'" says Michael, who convinced her to stay in LA.