Songwriter Don McLean – perhaps best known for his classic 1971 song “American Pie” – was arrested for misdemeanor domestic violence Monday morning in his home in Camden, Maine, PEOPLE confirms. 
 
 A spokesman for the Knox County Jail confirms to PEOPLE McLean spent several hours there this morning and was released after 11:30 a.m. on an unspecified amount of bail. 
 
 “He’s not the first celebrity we’ve dealt with and he won’t be the last,” says Corporal Bradley Woll. 
 
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 Police were called to McLean’s home just before 2 a.m. Monday morning, Woll says. Woll would not discuss the allegations against McLean in any detail, and would not discuss exactly what led to the 70-year-old musician’s arrest. 
 
 McLean’s wife, Patrisha, is a photographer who regularly exhibits her work. 
 
 McLean rose to prominence during the early 1970s with “American Pie,” a song that has since been covered by dozens of artists, including Madonna. 
 
 McLean is booked for an Australian tour in March. 
 
 Woll did not know whether McLean had legal representation. 
 
 A rep for McLean could not be reached for comment. ||||| The 1970s music legend was taken into custody without incident after officers responded to a 911 call at his residence in Camden, Maine, police said. ||||| Singer-songwriter Don McLean was arrested early Monday and charged with misdemeanor domestic violence assault. 
 
 McLean, best known for his song “American Pie,” was arrested after police responded to a 911 call at his Camden home shortly before 2 a.m., said Camden Police Chief Randy Gagne. McLean was arrested without incident and taken to the Knox County Jail. 
 
 Singer-songwriter Don McLean was arrested early Monday on a charge of domestic violence assault. Photo courtesy Camden Police Department Search photos available for purchase: Photo Store → 
 
 McLean was released from jail after posting $10,000 unsecured bail, according to the Penobscot Bay Pilot. He is scheduled to appear in Knox County Unified Court in Rockland on Feb. 22. 
 
 An arrest affidavit wasn’t available Monday and it wasn’t clear if McLean’s wife, Patrisha, or two children were at home at the time of his arrest. Courthouses were closed Monday for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. 
 
 McLean was fined $400 in 2013 for driving 43 mph through a school zone when the speed limit was 15 mph. The singer contested the charge, saying the school zone warning lights weren’t flashing. 
 
 McLean did not immediately return a call for comment Monday. 
 
 McLean, 70, began to gain international fame in 1971 with the release of “American Pie.” The song reached No. 1 on the record charts and went on to be one of the best-known songs in rock music history. The eight-minute song’s dream-like lyrics were based on the 1959 death in a plane crash of early rockers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson, known as “The Big Bopper.” McLean famously labeled it “the day the music died.” 
 
 In 2015, McLean sold his original draft of the lyrics, some 16 pages, at auction for $1.2 million. 
 
 He told the Portland Press Herald last summer that he decided to sell the lyrics to help provide for his wife and two children. He told media outlets at the time that his wife and children don’t “seem to have the mercantile instinct.” 
 
 “I want to get the best deal I can for them. It’s time,” he told Rolling Stone. 
 
 McLean’s wife is a photographer whose work has been the focus of exhibits and books. Her latest book, “My Island,” came out last summer and features more than 100 black-and-white photographs of children from Maine islands. 
 
 McLean moved to Camden more than 20 years ago, though he continues to record and tour around the world. He is scheduled to tour Australia in March. 
 
 Last year McLean brought attention to one of his Camden neighbors by writing a song about him. McLean was inspired to write “Waving Man” after seeing Kert Ingraham, 86, sitting outside a senior care facility in town in a wheelchair, waving to cars all day. Ingraham’s good cheer, his age and his appearance inspired McLean to write a song about a World War II veteran and all the people and things he’s waved goodbye and hello to. Patrisha McLean filmed Ingraham for a video featuring the song on YouTube. 
 
 In 2013, McLean sang “American Pie” with the Portland Symphony Orchestra during Portland’s Fourth of July Celebration on the Eastern Promenade. 
 
 McLean followed up “American Pie” with the Top 20 hit “Vincent” in 1972, about painter Vincent van Gogh. Other radio hits by McLean included covers of “Crying” and “Since I Don’t Have You” in 1980. 
 
 Staff Writer Ray Routhier contributed to this report. 
 
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– A jail supervisor says "American Pie" singer Don McLean has been arrested on a misdemeanor domestic violence charge in Maine. Cpl. Brad Woll says McLean was arrested and posted $10,000 bail early Monday at the Knox County Jail. The 70-year-old singer-songwriter lives in Camden, Maine. A message left for the police chief there by the AP was not immediately returned. Woll says he didn't know if McLean had a lawyer, but he tells People that "he's not the first celebrity we've dealt with and he won't be the last." A message seeking comment was left through the singer's website. A phone number listed under his name rang unanswered. Other outlets had similarly bad luck getting more information: The Portland Press Herald reports that McLean was arrested without incident after police were called to his house around 2am. It's not clear whom he is accused of assaulting, but the New York Daily News notes that he lives with his wife, 56-year-old photographer Patrisha McLean.