LOS ANGELES — Bestselling author Jillian Lauren will avoid jail time for her actions in an incident where she shot at Los Angeles police officers who raced into the backyard of her home while chasing suspects.

A judge granted Lauren, 52, diversion on Thursday due to mental health issues, Los Angeles County authorities said.

Lauren — who is married to Weezer bassist Scott Shriner — was arrested in April after she found herself on the wrong end of a high-speed police chase that had nothing to do with her. LAPD officers were aiding the California Highway Patrol in a search for someone who fled the scene of a hit-and-run accident on the 134 Freeway and wound up in the backyard of Lauren’s Eagle Rock home.

Lauren was not connected to the hit-and-run incident, authorities said. But officers a

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