GREAT FALLS, Virginia – Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas on Friday returned from the work-release halfway house where he lived for almost a month as part of his sentence for bringing guns to the NBA team's locker room.

Arenas departed the halfway house in Maryland, in the suburbs of Washington DC, and arrived at his Virginia home later in the morning.

His sentence also included two years of probation, a 5,000-dollar fine and 400 hours of community service that cannot be performed at basketball clinics.

Arenas pleaded guilty to felony gun possession in January and was sentenced to 30 days in a halfway house in March.

He started his sentence on April 9 and was allowed to leave a couple of days early because the Federal Bureau of Prisons doesn't release offenders from halfway houses on weekends.

Prosecutors had recommended that Arenas be sentenced to at least three months in jail, but judge Robert E. Morin opted instead for the halfway house.

Arenas, who voiced remorse at his sentencing hearing, was suspended in January for the rest of the NBA season.

The charge against him stemmed from a December incident involving Arenas team-mate Javaris Crittenton

Crittenton, who was also suspended by the NBA, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor gun charge and was sentenced to one year of unsupervised probation.