Boy George's not-so-boyish antics have landed him in trouble with the law.

The gender-bending singer was arrested early Friday on suspicion of possessing drugs and filing a bogus police report after summoning police to his New York apartment and falsely claiming that it had been burglarized.

He was arraigned early Saturday on fourth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, allegedly more than an eighth of an ounce of cocaine, according to the Manhattan District Attorney's office. Boy George was also rung up for falsely reporting a burglary. The singer was released without bail and scheduled to return to court on Dec. 19.

Per Reuters, George appeared in court shortly after midnight and began "crying like a baby." The wire service claimed he "appeared dazed."

While the singer kept his mouth shut in court and declined to speak to the press, his lawyer, Lou Freeman, told the New York Post that George "does not know where [the cocaine] came from.

"A man who has something to hide does not call police," the attorney added.

Following his court appearance, Boy George hopped on a plane to London Sunday. He declined to speak to reporters upon his arrival.

"I am not speaking to anybody about it," the singer told reporters at Heathrow Airport. "Don't ask me any questions, because you are not going to get any answers at all."

Police said the singer, whose real name is George O'Dowd, called 911 from his Little Italy residence at around 3:14 a.m. Friday and reported a burglary.

When the boys in blue arrived on the scene, the door was open and the singer greeted them by saying, "What's up?"

Detective Eric Crisafi told Reuters that Boy George then staggered about his apartment apparently in "a drugged stupor." After a quick search, the police discovered a small amount of cocaine next to a computer.

The singer was arrested and held at a nearby precinct before being transferred to Manhattan Criminal Court for arraignment.

It's not the first time the former Culture Club frontman has run into legal difficulties.

In February 2004, he agreed to pay $18,000 in libel damages to Andrew Thompson, a former membership secretary at the defunct Sweet Suite nightclub in London, to whom he had previously paid a hefty settlement after punching him in the nose during a 2002 nightclub brawl.

Thompson successfully sued Boy George for defamation after he referred to the settlement as a "ridiculous amount of money" in an interview and later insinuated that the altercation was the club employee's fault.

In 1986, he was convicted of heroin possession in England, for an incident in which two of his friends overdosed. The singer wound up getting sent to rehab and the arrest signaled the beginning of the end of Culture Club. The band, which sold more than 20 million albums worldwide on the strength of hits like "Karma Chameleon" and "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me," folded one year later.

He recounted his drug demons in his 1995 autobiography, Take It Like a Man, which also describes how he finally managed to stay clean.

George, who tried to forge a comeback in recent years as a deejay and record producer, learned the hard way that his status as an '80s icon doesn't generate much interest in today's world.

Taboo, the Rosie O'Donnell-financed musical based on Boy George's life, closed on Broadway in January 2004 after a disastrous run of 16 previews and 100 performances.

The flop put the onetime Queen of Nice out of pocket to the tune of millions of dollars, though she claimed not to mind.

"Taboo was by far the most fulfilling experience of my career," O'Donnell said in a statement at the time. "Many lessons were learned, and so it goes. For this experience, I am profoundly grateful and have no regrets."

Maybe Boy George is trying to rack up some dramatic material for Taboo 2.