Former Central Michigan University and NFL star Antonio Brown has been arrested on an attempted murder charge, Miami Police have confirmed.
The charge stems from an incident on May 16, in which Brown was detained briefly after shots were fired following a celebrity boxing event in the city.
Brown said on social media at the time that he had been “jumped by multiple individuals who tried to steal my jewelry and cause physical harm to me.”
“Police temporarily detained me until they received my side of the story and then released me. I WENT HOME THAT NIGHT AND WAS NOT ARRESTED,” Brown wrote.
The AP reported in June that Brown was then later named in an arrest warrant and was “accused of grabbing a handgun from a security staffer and firing two shots at a man he had gotten into a fistfight with earlier.”
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Antonio Brown returns a kickoff for a touchdown for Central Michigan during the GMAC Bowl against Troy on Jan. 6, 2010, at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile. (AL.com file)CHIP ENGLISH
The victim told investigators one of the bullets grazed his neck, the AP reported.
In a statement issued just before 7 p.m. Nov. 6, Miami Police Chief Manuel Morales confirmed that Brown was currently in custody in Newark, New Jersey, where he was met by Miami PD. The chief said Brown would be extradited to Miami soon to face charges related to the May shooting incident in the city’s Little Haiti neighborhood.
“Let this serve as a clear message; no matter who you are or where you run, we will pursue the facts, identify you, locate you, and bring you to justice,” Morales wrote.
Brown, 37, was initially taken into custody by U.S. Marshals in Dubai, the AP reported Thursday evening.
The AP reported that it was unclear why Brown was taken to New Jersey first or how long he had been in Dubai, but that he had posted several times on social media over the past few months from there.
In Florida, a second-degree attempted murder charge carries a maximum 15-year prison sentence and up to a $10,000 fine in event of a conviction.
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