Mindy McCready Sprung
She may still be a troubled songbird, but Mindy McCready is no longer a jailbird.
The 29-year-old country music purveyor was released from a Franklin, Tennessee, jail cell on $50,000 bond Wednesday. McCready, locked up since Aug. 26 on a probation violation charge, must stay within 50 miles of her home and check in with a probation officer twice a week.
She's due back in court in November.
The "Guys Do It All the Time" singer was collared in Florida after Tennessee officials issued a warrant for her arrest.
According to the warrant, McCready left Tennessee without permission and failed to contact her probation officer during the month of July. It was McCready's second violation.
The 29-year-old singer is on probation from an August 2004 charge of fraudulently obtaining the painkiller OxyContin from a Tennessee pharmacy.
McCready, who claimed she was trying to score the pills for a friend, eventually pleaded guilty and was slapped with a $4,000 fine, sentenced to three years of supervised probation and ordered to complete 200 hours of community service.
On May 6, the former Nashville darling was stopped for speeding and wound up being charged with drunken driving and driving with a suspended license, which earned her first probation violation.
Two days after her DUI arrest, McCready was beaten and almost choked to death by her on-again, off-again boyfriend, William McKnight, 38, who allegedly ambushed the singer in her home. He was later charged with attempted murder as a result of the altercation.
McCready survived the incident, but her downward spiral continued.
In July, McCready was hospitalized in Florida after a drug overdose that police deemed an apparent suicide attempt. McKnight, who had reconciled with McCready, was at the scene and reportedly gave police her suicide note.
The overdose came just days after McCready was charged in Arizona on counts including unlawful use of transportation, unlawful imprisonment and hindering prosecution stemming from an incident involving a stolen pickup truck.
The singer has missed two court dates in Arizona due to her hospitalization and subsequent jailing. A judge has rescheduled the arraignment for Oct. 3, but it's not clear if she'll be permitted to leave Tennessee.
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