[pepperhead]

I wonder if this is another woman and kids that he in trouble with.

[Mad-Margaret]

That's my thought, pepperhead. IIRC Crystal's ex-husband wasn't paying her child support. I think it was in the exclusive N&O interview of our dancing young single mom where she admitted being on welfare before she was able to get child support from the navy coworker who sired her two kids.

Court records show the divorce became final after she gave birth. She continued her relationship with the sailor, and the two had a second child. Soon after, the couple parted ways. In 2003, the children's father was ordered by a Durham court to have a portion of his paycheck, about $400 a month, withheld for child support, court records show. He was also ordered to pay more than $2,700 in public assistance to the children.

The ex-husband wasn't on the hook for that. And he is 18 years older than Crystal. I don't think his current problems involve Crystal -- at least not directly. It's probably his failure to support children from another woman that have him in jail.