Amy Winehouse Briefly Held in Pot Case

Fri Oct 19, 2007 5:37 AM EDT

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<p>British singer Amy Winehouse poses for photographs after being interviewed by the Associated Press at a studio in north London, in this Friday Feb. 16, 2007. British singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse was arrested in Norway for drug possession and held in custody overnight, a police official said Friday Oct. 19, 2007. Winehouse, her husband Blake Fielder-Civil and a third person were released at around 7 a.m. (0500 GMT) Friday after paying euro500 (US$715) in fines, Prosecutor Lars Morten Lothe said. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)</p>

British singer Amy Winehouse poses for photographs after being interviewed by the Associated Press at a studio in north London, in this Friday Feb. 16, 2007. British singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse was arrested in Norway for drug possession and held in custody overnight, a police official said Friday Oct. 19, 2007. Winehouse, her husband Blake Fielder-Civil and a third person were released at around 7 a.m. (0500 GMT) Friday after paying euro500 (US$715) in fines, Prosecutor Lars Morten Lothe said. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

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OSLO — British singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse was arrested in Norway for marijuana possession and held overnight, a police official said Friday.

Winehouse and her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, were released at around 7 a.m. Friday after paying $715 each in fines, prosecutor Lars Morten Lothe said. A third person, also released, was fined $492, he said.

The three were arrested shortly after 6 p.m. at a hotel in Bergen in southwestern Norway, where Winehouse is on a European tour, after a tip to police.

"They were found with seven grams (about 1/4-ounce)of marijuana," Lothe said. "She's paid the fine, so this thing is over for us now."

Winehouse was to perform in Oslo Saturday, before heading to the Netherlands on Monday.

Winehouse made her U.S. debut this year with the acclaimed album "Back to Black," but her celebrity has been fueled by her tabloid image as well as her talent. She's spoken openly about her battles with drugs and her penchant for alcohol and marijuana, and her hit single "Rehab" is an autobiographical tale of her resistance to being pushed to go to rehab: "They tried to make me go to rehab, but I said no, no, no."

(This version CORRECTS that singer and her husband were each fined $715. )