Posted on 07/25/2005 9:50:51 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Troubled country singer Mindy McCready has been hospitalized in Florida after an overdose.
McCready, 28, was found unconscious Friday in a hotel lobby, according to authorities in Pinellas County, Fla. An incident report did not list the nature of the overdose.
Last week, McCready was charged in Arizona with identity theft and other counts. Within the past two years, she has also faced allegations of driving under the influence and a drug violation.
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Is this chick a little loopy?
Don't country music stars make enough that they don't need to be stealing identities?
Man, that's a shocker. No sarcasm there.
Like Toby Keith says, "do blondes really have more fun or are they just easier to see in the dark."
Sounds like she's living the lyrics of a country song. Sad.
Maybe she needed some new material.
She was helping the cops catch a scam artist, to help set him up.
She's just out there storing up memories and experiences for the next great C&W cry in your beer heartbreaker monster hit.
Sad, really.
She has a very distinctive singing voice.
Guess she needs those "10,000 Angels" she sang about a few years back.
Sorta like Pete Townshend doing 'research' on kiddie porn?
Good one.
I'm not making it up.
LOL!
I know of an idiot who was charged with identity theft for getting numerous prescriptions under false names.
He did it to just get high. Probation and some litter patrol for a while is his sentence.
;)
She a future 'Mrs. Steve Earle'?
Here's a link to Tampa Bay Online with a little more detail/background.
http://news.tbo.com/news/MGBFOZCKLBE.html
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Authorities in Florida say country singer Mindy McCready suffered a drug overdose last week, while her lawyer said yesterday her hospitalization stemmed from stress after she discovered she is facing criminal charges in Arizona.
The 28-year-old McCready was charged last week by Arizona authorities with unlawful use of transportation, identity theft, attempted fraud, unlawful imprisonment and hindering prosecution.
Lawyer Dennis Tomlin says the charges were filed after McCready helped authorities catch a con artist.
In May, McCready was charged in Tennessee with driving under the influence and driving on a suspended license.
Last year, she pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining the painkiller OxyContin at a suburban pharmacy.
Associated Press
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Dennis Tomlin, who had been her attorney until midday Monday, declined comment on the singer's situation Monday night except to say the singer has retained another lawyer.
Tomlin said earlier Monday that McCready had gone to Florida "to visit her mother when she found out about the potential charges in Arizona. The stress got to her and she ended up in the hospital."
He said then that she was in intensive care.
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McCready, 29, whose 1996 debut album included the hit ``Maybe He'll Notice Her Now,'' had taken large amounts of two substances and drank a lot of alcohol, a sheriff's report states. The sheriff's office declined to identify the substances, saying that doing so would violate McCready's medical confidentiality rights.
With McCready in the lobby of the Holiday Inn Harborside was William McKnight, 39, a country singer from Brandon who described himself to authorities as McCready's fiance.
In the lobby, McKnight told deputies ``he had been having some relationship problems with McCready'' and then handed them a four-page suicide note attributed to McCready.
``McCready wrote about having problems with her relationship and wrote in the note saying goodbye to her family members and friends,'' the sheriff's report states.
The note was not released.
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