Former NFL star Antonio Brown has pleaded not responsible to tried homicide as he prepares to face trial on prices stemming from a taking pictures in Miami earlier this 12 months.
Brown, who was arrested in Dubai final week and extradited to New Jersey, was launched from the Essex County Jail late Tuesday morning and transferred to south Florida. He arrived in Miami Tuesday afternoon and was shortly booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Middle.
Brown’s lawyer, Mark Eiglarsh, mentioned he’d filed a written not responsible plea previous to the previous All-Professional broad receiver touching down within the Sunshine State. He informed The Related Press that Brown could possibly be in court docket for a bond listening to as quickly as Wednesday morning.
Brown is accused of grabbing a safety guard’s handgun following a celeb boxing occasion on Might 16 and firing two photographs at a person he’d gotten right into a fistfight with earlier that evening. The sufferer, Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu, informed investigators that one of many bullets grazed his neck.
“The actions he was forced to take were solely in self-defense against the alleged victim’s violent behavior,” Eiglarsh mentioned. “Brown was attacked that night and acted within his legal right to protect himself.”
In a social media put up the day after the taking pictures, Brown claimed he was jumped by folks attempting to steal his jewellery. He mentioned he’d been “temporarily detained” and questioned by Miami police, however had not been arrested.
A warrant for his arrest was later issued in June, at which level it appeared that he’d already fled to Dubai whereas allegedly trying to evade U.S. regulation enforcement. Throughout his time on the run, Miami police mentioned he posted social media movies from Dubai.
“He was kind of taunting us, saying, I’m safe here, and that’s what we interpreted from those videos, but you know what, he was laughing then, we’re getting the last laugh,” a Miami police spokesperson informed WTVJ. “No matter who you are, what power or what money you have, if you commit a crime in the city of Miami, we’re going to identify and locate you and bring you to justice.”
If convicted of second-degree tried homicide, Brown faces as much as 15 years in jail and fines of as much as $10,000.
Brown performed 12 seasons within the NFL with the Pittsburgh Steelers, New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He final performed in 2022 when he took off his jersey and shoulder pads and walked off the sphere in the course of a sport versus the New York Jets, main the Bucs to launch him.
Brown has beforehand been accused of home violence, failure to pay baby help, assaulting the motive force of a shifting truck and different crimes.
