Ex-NFL star Antonio Brown gets $25K bail, GPS monitor on attempted murder charge

A Miami justice ordered that erstwhile NFL prima wide receiver Antonio Brown volition beryllium released connected $25,000 bail and indispensable deterioration an ankle monitor

Former NFL prima wide receiver Antonio Brown volition beryllium released connected $25,000 bail and indispensable deterioration a GPS ankle show connected an attempted execution charge successful Florida, a justice ordered Wednesday.

Brown, 37, has pleaded not blameworthy to the second-degree attempted execution charge, which carries a imaginable 15-year situation condemnation and a good up to $10,000 if helium is convicted. His lawyer, Mark Eiglarsh, said Brown would instrumentality to his location successful Broward County, Florida, portion the lawsuit proceeds.

“He nary longer has a passport. He’ll beryllium surviving astatine his home. I look guardant to moving with him zealously connected this case," Eiglarsh told Circuit Judge Mindy Glazer astatine a enslaved hearing.

Brown appeared astatine the proceeding via video wearing a reddish jailhouse garment and spoke lone to reply questions from the judge. Prosecutors had sought pretrial detention, contending Brown is simply a high-paid erstwhile nonrecreational jock with the resources to flee.

According to an apprehension warrant, Brown is accused of grabbing a handgun from a information staffer after a personage boxing match successful Miami connected May 16 and firing 2 shots astatine a antheral helium had gotten into a fistfight with earlier. The victim, Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu, told investigators that 1 of the bullets grazed his neck.

Brown's lawyer said Wednesday that the affidavit is mistaken and that Brown really utilized his idiosyncratic firearm, and that the shots were not aimed astatine anyone.

“It was my client’s ain gun," Eiglarsh said.

Based connected his societal media posts, Brown had been surviving successful Dubai for respective months. In a societal media station aft the altercation, Brown said helium was defending himself due to the fact that helium was “jumped by aggregate individuals who tried to bargain my jewelry and origin carnal harm to me.”

Eiglarsh said Brown has unspecified concern interests successful Dubai and ever intended to crook himself successful connected the attempted execution charge.

“He didn’t fly to Dubai," the lawyer said. "He ever had a tendency and volition to reply this case.”

Brown, who spent 12 years successful the NFL, was an All-Pro wide receiver who past played successful 2021 for Tampa Bay but spent astir of his vocation with Pittsburgh. For his career, Brown had 928 receptions for much than 12,000 yards and accounted for 88 full touchdowns counting punt returns and 1 pass.

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