The singer previously faced misdemeanor charges after getting into an alleged hit-and-run accident with a parked car in 2007.
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Britney Spears was arrested in California on Wednesday night.
The pop star was taken into custody by California Highway Patrol in Ventura County, Calif., around 9:30 p.m., per the sheriff’s office arrest records. She was subsequently booked and released at 6 a.m. Thursday morning.
Spears was reportedly arrested on suspicion of a DUI, law enforcement sources told PEOPLE. The arrest is noted as a “cite and release” and has no probation listed.
The singer’s next court date is set for May 4.
TMZ was the first to report the news.
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Representatives for the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department and Spears did not immediately respond to Entertainment Weekly‘s request for comment.
In addition to her arrest, Spears seems to have deleted her Instagram account sometime this week. However, it is unclear if the two incidents are related.
This is not the first time the Grammy winner has landed in legal trouble. She previously faced four misdemeanor charges after getting into an alleged hit-and-run accident with a parked car in Los Angeles in 2007. The charges were later dropped after the “Oops!… I Did It Again” singer paid the vehicle’s owner for the damages.
In 2021, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge released Spears from a 13-year conservatorship.
Last month, Spears spoke out in an emotional Instagram post about how she was “incredibly lucky to be alive” after the way her family — which includes her father Jamie, mother Lynne, and sister Jamie Lynn — have treated her.
“As people, all we really want is to feel connected to each other and never feel alone,” she wrote. “For those of you in your family that have said to help you is to isolate you and make you feel unbelievably left out … they were wrong.”
She said of her family, “Now I’m scared of them,” adding that she thinks they will “never take responsibility for what they did.”
Spears’ arrest comes a month after Entertainment Weekly learned that Spears sold her entire music catalog to publisher Primary Wave for around $200 million.
