Teen Mother’s Amber Portwood Arrested for Home Battery
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Amber Portwood is in hassle with the regulation once more and is again behind bars.
The 29-year-old Teen Mother star was arrested and booked in jail on Friday on a home battery cost in her native Indiana, authorized data present. The alleged sufferer was not named and extra particulars weren’t supplied. A listening to has been set for subsequent week.
Portwood’s boyfriend Andrew Glennon, father of one among her two kids, one-year-old son James, has not commented.
Portwood has gotten into hassle with the regulation a number of instances in previous years.
In 2010, she was arrested and charged with felony home battery and neglect of a dependent, and misdemeanor home battery after allegedly slapping and choking now-ex-fiancé Gary Shirley in entrance of their toddler daughter, Leah, now 10. The fights had been captured on video for Teen Mother and viewers known as the Indiana child-abuse hotline after the present aired, in response to the Los Angeles Instances.
Portwood spent the evening in jail, whereas a decide issued a brief restraining order to maintain her and her ex away from one another.
In late 2011, Portwood was arrested once more, this time for violating the phrases of her probation by being accused of battery and public intoxication in reference to a combat weeks prior, and failing to acquire her GED and full anger administration lessons, in response to Indiana newspaper the Herald Bulletin. Following a probation search, authorities discovered a number of completely different prescription capsules in her possession, for which she couldn’t produce prescriptions, and he or she spent Christmas in jail.
In 2012, Portwood was sentenced to 5 years in jail for prescription drug possession and the probation violation, however was provided a plea deal beneath which she would keep away from jail time if she go to rehab. Months later, she was again behind bars for failing to seem at a court docket listening to, She was launched quickly after which was booked once more per week afterward contempt-of-court prices.
Portwood in the end selected to serve out her five-year jail time period moderately than adjust to the phrases of her court-ordered drug program.
In November 2013, the Teen Mother star was launched from jail early for good habits after spending lower than two years behind bars. In keeping with the jail’s spokesperson, Portwood participated in a substance abuse program whereas in jail.