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Lohan pal and NY hotel magnate Vikram Chatwalin Florida drug bustAirport security say they found loose white pills and a packet of cocaine in his jacket and a clearbaggie hidden inside his pants that contained heroin, ketamine and marijuana.

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BROWARD COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE

Hotel owner Vikram Chatwal, a friend of Lindsay Lohan, was arrested at Fort Lauderdale-HollywoodInternational Airport on eight drug counts on Tuesday.

Manhattan hotelier Vikram Chatwal was an overnight guest in a

Florida jail this week after cops allegedly found him with illegal

drugs at an airport checkpoint.

Police say Chatwal, a good pal of trouble magnet Lindsay

Lohan, was packing heroin, cocaine, ketamine, pot and an

assortment of powerful pills when “behavior detection officers”

flagged him for a search at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood

International Airport on Tuesday.

Security found more than a dozen loose white pills in his carry-

on bag and a packet of cocaine in his jacket pocket and

arrested Chatwal on the spot, a police report from the Broward

County Sheriff's Office states.

Investigators later found a clear baggie in the crotch of

Chatwal's pants that contained 6 grams of heroin, a half a gram

of ketamine and 3.5 grams of marijuana, the report states.

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The pills included the sedatives Lorazepam and Xanax.

"The arrestee provided a post-Miranda statement to narcotics detectives wherein he admitted

possessing and purchasing the (drugs) illegally," the police report says.

Chatwal, whose properties include the Dream Hotels, was charged with eight drug counts, including

felony trafficking because of the size of the heroin stash.

The Sikh impresario of New York nightlife faces a minimum three-year jail sentence if convicted of

the most serious charge.

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It was at Chatwal's Manhattan Dream Hotel in Chelsea that Lohan allegedly clipped a chef with her

Porsche last September.

She was charged with leaving the scene of an accident, but prosecutors rejected the case.

Chatwal, 41, was released from jail Wednesday after posting bail, a sheriff's spokeswoman said.

Friends told The News that the multimillionaire playboy needs serious help.

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"Vikram needs to get himself into rehab," one source said. "He has a real substance abuse

problem."

A rep for Chatwal in New York did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The scion of a wealthy hotel family, Chatwal previously entered rehab in Mumbai for treatment of

alcoholism, the Bangalore Mirror reported in 2010.

Lohan and Chatwal were spotted shopping together in SoHo in January, the same weekend her

criminal lawyer claimed she was laid up with the flu and too ill to travel for a California court date.

She took a last-minute flight to make the appearance after the photos — which showed her

smoking — raised questions about her condition.

ndillon@nydailynews.com

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NOBIGDEAL 6 hours ago

Now the News is making stories about her worthless friends. Where does it end?

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PHILMUGLA 3 days ago

May I recommend the harrowing, insightful and inspiring Relapse 2 Recovery , memoirs of arecovering to any addict honestly looking to recover.

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RICLEE 3 days ago

Lindsay isn't worried .... she has friends all over the world she can connect with to feed herhabit.

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NEWYORKER777 3 days ago

How can y ou say that someone that has a drug problem is a looser.

He obviously needs help with a serious drug problem.

Its funny how people are so quick to hate and never try to see the story objectively .

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NOBIGDEAL 6 hours ago

He's a loser. There, that was pretty easy .

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@ 3 days ago

.Chatwal's a ... LOSER ! ! !

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GERALD66 3 days ago

although xanax is often abused it is not an illegal or controlled substance.

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NOHOPENOCHANGE 3 days ago

Wrong. It is a Schedule IV Controlled Substance. Possession without a prescription ismost definitely illegal.

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LAURALUUU 3 days ago

seems like a real stand up guy , y a know, the kind y ou can bring home to y our parents. HA

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DQ21 4 days ago

Why do they keep bringing Lohan up with this guy . He has been screwing around with that hofrom Top Chef. Padlme Locksmith according to all the tabloids.

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BIGJAKE 3 days ago

No one knows who he is, so the NY DN drops her name into the headline & article toattract readers. And, we all fell for it!

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DANDY 4 days ago

And she has no substance abuse problems,,,,?right!

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