Spears is stretchered away from home · 2008-01-04 16:21
An intoxicated Britney Spears was arrested and stretchered away from her home by ambulance Thursday night after refusing to hand her children over to their father, Kevin Federline.
The four-hour standoff at the troubled singer's Beverly Hills mansion began at 7pm (0300 GMT) when she refused to hand her sons, two-year-old Sean Preston and one-year-old Jayden James, over to her ex-husband, known as K-Fed, Guardian Unlimited reports.
Police officers arrived at Spears' home at around 8pm, and she finally turned over the children at around 10.50pm, according to the Los Angeles police department.
LAPD spokesman Officer Jason Lee said that Spears was detained and "taken in for evaluation" after police arrived at her house and found her to be under the influence of an unknown substance.
Spears arrived at L.A.'s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center just before 12:30 a.m., and is on "medical hold," i.e. being detained, while docs of the physical and psychological variety check her out.
A second ambulance, reportedly containg a child, left Spears' house shortly after the first one and was headed in the same direction.
There's no immediate word on whether charges will be filed, E!Online informs.
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