Country Singer Carlene Carter Jailed
(AP, 04/01/2004 11:16 PM)

Carlene Carter , stepdaughter of Johnny Cash and daughter of country
singers June Carter Cash and Carl Smith, has been jailed, authorities
said Thursday.

Sumner County jail officials would not say why the 48-year-old
country singer was in custody. WTVF-TV reported her bond had been
revoked because she failed a drug test.

Carter was charged in December 2002 with identity theft to obtain
prescription drugs. A court hearing in the case is set for April 12.
If convicted, she faces two to 12 years in prison.

According to an affidavit in the case, Carter was arrested after she
obtained two prescriptions for the anti-depressant Zoloft in the name
of Francis Reidy III, a boyfriend who died a month earlier.

Carter was arrested in New Mexico in June 2001 on heroin possession
charges. She pleaded no contest in September 2003 and was sentenced
to 18 months' probation.

Another former boyfriend, Grammy Award-winning bass player Howie
Epstein, died of a drug overdose in 2003. His estate sued Carter last
month over a home the two once shared in Santa Fe, N.M.

Carter's hits include "I Fell in Love" in 1990, and "Every Little
Thing" in 1993.

Both her mother and stepfather died last year.