Bobby Brown was hospitalized

DeKalb County, Georgia (Whitney Houston Fans Website) - Bobby Brown, who had been incarcerated since turning himself in to DeKalb County (Georgia) officials on Friday (January 17), was hospitalized at 3 a.m. ET on Tuesday morning (January 21). The singer was rushed from county jail to Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital. Details of Brown's medical condition were unavailable, according to a DeKalb County Sheriff's Office spokesperson, because medical information about inmates is confidential.

Brown was serving an eight-day sentence for pleading guilty to charges of drunk driving, speeding, no proof of insurance, and failure to maintain a lane. The singer was also placed on a two-year probation, ordered to perform 240 hours of community service, ordered not to drive for a year, and fined $2,600 fine plus additional court fees. If Brown remains hospitalized until Wednesday (January 22), he could be released without having to return to jail due to a policy of 25 percent sentence reduction for good behavior.

This is Brown's second stay in the hospital in the last seven months. The singer was hospitalized in Virginia in June of 2002 after running a fever while traveling from Atlanta to New Jersey on a tour bus with his wife, Whitney Houston. Brown's publicist Nancy Seltzer said that Brown was given intravenous antibiotics at a hospital in Fredericksburg, but the nature of the singer's infection was not disclosed. Brown was initially arrested outside Atlanta in April of 1996, when his red Mercedes-Benz was seen weaving in and out of traffic, and he was hit with the aforementioned charges.
The singer then missed a 1997 court date, but was apprehended again in Atlanta in November of 2002, at which time he was pulled over and arrested for speeding, having no proof of insurance, driving without a license, and possession of an ounce or less of marijuana.