Bobby Brown was arrested on Sunday and jailed in Massachusetts for failure to appear in court and pay child support fines.

“He was picked up last night outside his daughter’s cheerleading competition” at her high school, Patrick McDermott, clerk of Norfolk Probate Court in Canton, Mass., said. “He went very cooperatively. According to the constable, no one was really around” – so his daughter was not embarrassed by the situation.

Brown, 40, owes money to his former girlfriend Kim Ward, who lives in Massachusetts and with whom he has two teenage children: LaPrincia and Bobby III.

“Yes, it is true. He was arrested yesterday in Boston for late child support payments,” Brown’s publicist, Phaedra Parks, said on Monday. “We are bringing those payments current right now as we speak.”

In October, a judge ordered Brown to be arrested if he stepped foot in the state after the singer skipped a court hearing over $11,000 in delinquent child support payments to Ward.

Later that month, McDermott said that Brown had paid what he owed to Ward; however, the arrest warrant has remained in place – probably in case Brown fell behind again, McDermott said.

Lawyers for both sides are currently conferring with a probation officer to determine how much Brown owes Ward at this point.

Brown spent Sunday night in jail and will remain in custody until Monday afternoon, when a judge will decide whether to charge him with contempt of a child support order. If the charge is criminal, Brown could land in jail, McDermott said.

Brown, who split from Whitney Houston in September, has a history of missed child support payments, and was even jailed in March 2004 for one day after missing several payments, which he subsequently paid.