Steve-O Sprung from Swedish Jail

Apparently a several-thousand Kronor fine is what Steve-O gets for being a Jackass.

The MTV prankster was released from a Swedish jail Tuesday after reaching a plea bargain with prosecutors following his arrest last Thursday on drug possession and smuggling charges stemming from a joke he told Swedish media.

The deal was arranged after Steve-O's local defense attorney, Bjorn Hurtig, appealed his detention on the grounds that the entertainer's career would be harmed by his incarceration.

After spending two days in jail, Steve-O, whose real name is Stephen Glover, ended up copping to two minor counts--possession of five grams of marijuana and one Ecstacy tablet (with the caveat that he had no knowledge where the Ecstacy came from)--in exchange for being released Tuesday and paying a fine of 45,000 Kronor (about $5,800).

"We're pleased with the outcome," says Jason Berk, Steve-O's attorney in the United States. "It's analogous to very very minor misdemeanors in the U.S. There are no travel restrictions or probations...He agreed to plead guilty to the charges, and the case is now closed."

If convicted on the more serious charges, Steve-O could've faced anywhere from two to 10 years in the slammer.

In court last week, Glover fessed up to a Stockholm judge that he had drugs in his hotel room, however, he said he was only kidding when he told a Swedish newspaper that for his latest and greatest stunt, he swallowed a condom full of ganja to circumvent the Scandinavian country's notoriously strict anti-drug laws.

"I had an Ecstacy pill in my bag, and I smoked marijuana in the hotel room. I admit to both of those crimes," he told the court.

However, the performer, dubbed "the painless one" by his Jackass peers, rejected prosecutors' claims that he tried to smuggle drugs into Sweden, despite describing the prank to Swedish reporters, fans on his Website and even MTV.

"I apologize that my bad sense of humor has wasted so much of the Swedish taxpayers' money," he said.

Joke or no, in an email sent to MTV on May 15, he claimed that he "loaded a bunch of marijuana, a chunk of hash and a big rolling paper into a condom" and painfully swallowed it as a member of his crew videotaped.

When he was busted on May 22, Glover was on the road with his Don't Try This at Home tour. At the time of his arrest, Berk argued that Glover's incarceration was wrong, noting that his client would never jeopardize his life's work going out on the lam.

"[To] suggest that Steve-O is a flight risk is almost humorous," Berk said. "This is a person whose whereabouts are known by the general public every day of his life. It is unwarranted to place Steve-O's career and livelihood in jeopardy by restricting his liberty."

Prosecutors begged to differ, countering that it was necessary to lock him up so they could see what exactly Steve-O was hiding up there in his nether regions.

"He is now sitting in a cell on a special toilet with an alien object in his stomach. We are waiting for it to come out so we can analyze the contents," prosecutor Gunnar Fjaestad told Reuters on Friday after reviewing X-rays of the performer.

Of course, gross-out excretions aren't Steve-O's only claim to fame.

While the shock artist has made a career out of pushing the boundaries of bad taste on Jackass, he has upped the ante considerably for his nightclub act. Like the time he was rung up on charges of indecency and battery in Louisiana after stapling his scrotum to his thigh and banging heads with a couple of bodyguards.

Berk added that Steve-O is in "good spirits" now that he's been set free and is looking forward to resuming his nightclub act, as well as joining this summer's revived Lollapalooza tour, which kicks off July 3. He's slated to "entertain" on the fest's second stage.

(Originally published at 11 a.m. PT)