Former NFL star Antonio Brown has been extradited from Dubai and might be transferred to Miami, the place he’s set to face trial on an tried homicide cost stemming from a capturing exterior a boxing occasion earlier this yr.
The All-Professional broad receiver, who spent most of his 12-year profession with the Pittsburgh Steelers, is accused of firing two photographs at a person following an altercation at an novice boxing occasion in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood on Could 16.
Based on an arrest warrant issued in June, Brown appeared to seize “a black firearm from the right hip area” of a safety official and fired at a person, later recognized as Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu.
Brown had not returned to Florida since then.
On Thursday, authorities confirmed to NBC Miami that the 37-year-old was being extradited from Dubai, the place he was allegedly making an attempt to evade American regulation enforcement.
He arrived from Dubai by means of Newark, N.J., and was booked into the Essex County Jail in New Jersey on Thursday, in response to a spokesperson for the U.S. Marshals Service. He’s scheduled to be transported to South Florida, although the timeline for that switch stays unclear.
Video of the Could incident shared on social media confirmed Brown concerned in a battle through the occasion, which was hosted by widespread streamer and web persona Adin Ross.
A number of folks, together with Brown, had been briefly detained and questioned by Miami police after the altercation, however no arrests had been made.
In a message posted on X the next day, Brown wrote that he was “jumped by multiple individuals who tried to steal my jewelry and cause physical harm to me,” including that he was simply “temporarily detained” however not arrested.
“I will be talking to my legal [counsel] and attorneys on pressing charges on the individuals that jumped me,” Brown wrote on the time.
