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Monday 25 of November 2024

Airport fracas charge against singer Gretchen Wilson dropped


FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2016 file photo, Gretchen Wilson arrives at the 50th annual CMA Awards at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn. Wilson has agreed to donate $500 to charity to settle a criminal charge related to a disturbance at a Connecticut airport last month. The Grammy-winning “Redneck Woman” singer appeared Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018  in court in Enfield. A misdemeanor breach of peace charge will be dismissed based on the donation to a fund for injured crime victims.  (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File),FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2016 file photo, Gretchen Wilson arrives at the 50th annual CMA Awards at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn. Wilson has agreed to donate $500 to charity to settle a criminal charge related to a disturbance at a Connecticut airport last month. The Grammy-winning “Redneck Woman” singer appeared Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018  in court in Enfield. A misdemeanor breach of peace charge will be dismissed based on the donation to a fund for injured crime victims.  (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2016 file photo, Gretchen Wilson arrives at the 50th annual CMA Awards at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn. Wilson has agreed to donate $500 to charity to settle a criminal charge related to a disturbance at a Connecticut airport last month. The Grammy-winning “Redneck Woman” singer appeared Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018 in court in Enfield. A misdemeanor breach of peace charge will be dismissed based on the donation to a fund for injured crime victims. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File),FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2016 file photo, Gretchen Wilson arrives at the 50th annual CMA Awards at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn. Wilson has agreed to donate $500 to charity to settle a criminal charge related to a disturbance at a Connecticut airport last month. The Grammy-winning “Redneck Woman” singer appeared Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018 in court in Enfield. A misdemeanor breach of peace charge will be dismissed based on the donation to a fund for injured crime victims. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

ENFIELD, Conn. (AP) — Country singer Gretchen Wilson has agreed to donate $500 to charity to settle a criminal charge related to a disturbance at a Connecticut airport last month.

The Grammy-winning “Redneck Woman” singer appeared Thursday in court in Enfield. A misdemeanor breach of peace charge will be dismissed based on the donation to a fund for injured crime victims.

Wilson was arrested Aug. 21 at Bradley International Airport near Hartford en route to a private show at the Mohegan Sun casino. State police said Wilson was in a minor disturbance on the plane involving another passenger and a bathroom, and was arrested after becoming “belligerent” with troopers.

Wilson said Thursday that everyone has bad days, but celebrities are targeted when they have one. She was to return home to Tennessee on Thursday.