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Love, who turned 40 on Friday, was due to face arraignment on an assault charge stemming from an alleged April 25 altercation with a 32-year-old woman at the home of Love's ex-boyfriend and onetime manager, Jim Barber. Love reputedly came at the woman with a liquor bottle.
But on Friday, Love was in her Manhattan apartment, where in the late afternoon, police visited her following a report that bottles had been thrown from her window.
A handcuffed Love was taken by ambulance to Bellevue Hospital, where she apparently spent the weekend. Love's neighbors told the New York Post she spent the week displaying zonked-out behavior, while a police officer tells The New York Times that Love punched fans and said that she had an abortion Thursday.
She reportedly also fought with medical attendants who carried her on a stretcher into the ambulance.
Love's attorney, Michael Rosenstein, tells the Post that he will ask the court to hold the arrest warrant because his client intends to return to California on her own.
This has been a bumpy year for Love. In May, she pleaded guilty in an unrelated case to being under the influence of cocaine when she was arrested outside Barber's home in October for disturbing the peace.
She also faces other drug possession charges in Beverly Hills – and is due to appear in court for that case on Thursday – as well as a reckless endangerment charge in New York City for allegedly flinging a microphone stand into the crowd at a club during an impromptu performance.
A New York judge nearly issued a warrant for her arrest last month when she was five hours late for the hearing, reports Reuters. In California in February, another judge issued an arrest warrant after Love skipped out on proceedings in two criminal cases.
That warrant was withdrawn when the singer subsequently showed up at a rescheduled hearing.
