Mindy McCready Back in Jail

7/26/2007 Stephen L. Betts The Nashville Tennessean reports that Mindy McCready was back in jail Thursday, accused of violating probation on a 2004 drug charge after a scuffle with her mother and authorities in Florida. The 31-year-old singer was taken into custody Wednesday at Nashville International Airport and booked into the Williamson County jail just south of Nashville. She was arrested last week in Fort Myers, Fla., her hometown, on misdemeanor charges that she scratched her mother on the face during a scuffle and resisted sheriff's deputies. Williamson County Circuit Court clerk officials said Thursday that Mindy is not yet scheduled to have a bond hearing. A hearing on charges of violating her probation is set for Sept. 7. Deputy District Attorney General Derek Smith said Mindy violated probation in three ways: by being charged in a new offense; not reporting those charges immediately to her probation officer; and by the nature of the new assault charges. She could serve up to three years in prison if convicted of violating probation. The singer was on probation after receiving a suspended three-year sentence for obtaining the painkiller OxyContin at a pharmacy in 2004 by getting a prescription in another person's name. Still pending is another probation violation charge against McCready resulting from a drunken driving arrest in May 2005.