( CNN ) -- Chris Brown is a free man , for now . The troubled singer was released from a Los Angeles County jail just after midnight Monday , a Los Angeles Sheriff 's Department representative confirmed to CNN . Brown had been in jail since March . He was ordered to be held after being expelled from a court-ordered rehabilitation facility . He had been ejected from the facility for violating the rules . In May , Brown admitted to violating his probation for his arrest last year for an alleged assault in Washington . Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James Brandlin sentenced Brown to serve 365 days in jail for the admitted probation violation , and the singer was given credit for serving 234 days because of the rehab and jail time . The case against Brown in Washington , in which he and his bodyguard Christopher Hollosy were accused of beating a man who tried to take a photo of Brown last October , is still pending . Brown has been charged with misdemeanor assault .
The man was released from a Los Angeles County jail early Monday . In court , he admitted to a probation violation . He still faces charges in California .