Arrest warrant issued for Mindy McCready

A judge signed off on the warrant Monday because McCready left Tennessee without getting permission from her probation officer and did not report to the officer the entire month of July, according to Williamson County Sheriff’s officials interviewed Wednesday.

Authorities said this was McCready’s second probation violation, which means she cannot post bond this time and likely will have to serve time in jail.

The probation violations stem from charges brought against the troubled singer last year, when she pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining the painkiller OxyContin at a pharmacy in Williamson County and was fined $4,000, sentenced to three years of supervised probation and ordered to perform 200 hours of community service.

McCready violated her probation the first time May 6 when she was charged with driving under the influence in Nashville. She posted a $5,000 bond in Franklin shortly after turning herself on May 17, according to sheriff’s records.

The arrest warrant is the latest in a string of problems for McCready, who had a No. 1 hit in 1996 with “Guys Do It All the Time.”

A few days after the DUI arrest McCready’s boyfriend, William McKnight, was charged with attempted murder after allegedly breaking into her home and beating her. McCready later went on nationwide TV shows to discuss the incident and speak out against domestic violence.

In July, she was charged in Mohave County, Arizona, with unlawful use of a means of transportation and hindering prosecution. Her attorney said then that she had been trying to help authorities catch a con artist there.

Later last month she was released from a Florida hospital after apparently attempting suicide at an Indian Rocks Beach, Fla., hotel. McKnight was with her, authorities said.