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Actress Lindsay Lohan and a passenger in her Mercedes suffered minor injuries when a photographer crashed his car into hers after pursuing her through the streets of Los Angeles, police said on Wednesday.

Police arrested Galo Cesar Ramirez who they said followed Lohan, 18, and her 19-year-old passenger on Tuesday and tried to snap a photograph of the "Mean Girls" actress. Lohan stars in the upcoming Walt Disney film "Herbie: Fully Loaded."

A spokeswoman for Lohan said the actress knew Ramirez had been arrested, but had no comment on the criminal investigation pending against him.

"Lindsay is shaken up and extremely upset from the incident caused by the aggressive paparazzi," Lohan spokeswoman Leslie Sloane said in a statement.

After Lohan made a U-turn to evade Ramirez, he intentionally crashed his minivan into the driver's side door of Lohan's Mercedes-Benz coupe, police said. The crash occurred just outside the Beverly Hills city limits, police said.

Lohan suffered a cut to her ankle and complained of pain in her neck and ankle, police said. Her passenger, whom police did not identify, complained of pain in her head and wrist.

Lohan had called police from her cell phone to complain that she was being chased by paparazzi shortly before the crash, police said.

Ramirez, 24, was booked on a felony charge of assault with a deadly weapon and on an outstanding warrant for misdemeanor marijuana possession, police said.

He was released on Wednesday on $35,000 bail. He is scheduled to appear in court on June 22.