Chris Brown has had a very busy 36 hours and is in the news again for all the wrong reasons. The singer was arrested on Tuesday following a call at 3am to 911 from former beauty queen Baylee Curran, alleging that Brown pointed a weapon at her, for admiring his friend’s diamond necklace.
Baylee Curran said that she was at the US singer’s home for a music video ‘go-see’ or audition, and she was chased out of the house and had to hide under a nearby car with a friend, after Brown had pointed a gun in her face.
A search warrant was obtained by the police on Tuesday and law enforcement officials spent a lengthy 11 hour ‘stand-off’ with Brown. During which, Brown posted a series of videos on Instagram ranting about police harassment. According to TMZ Brown threw a duffel bag out of a window, taunting the police, saying “come and get me”. There have been claims that the duffel bag had drugs inside.
Brown later posted messages on social media on Tuesday morning declaring his innocence and denying reports that he barricaded himself in his ‘‘palace.’’
‘‘Y’all gonna stop playing with me like I’m the villain out here, like I’m going crazy,’’ he said in one Instagram video, waving a cigarette and looking at the camera. ‘‘When you get the warrant or whatever you need to do, you’re going to walk right up in here and you’re going to see nothing. You idiots.’’ Those videos have now been deleted.
LAPD Robbery-Homicide Division detectives entered Brown’s property with a warrant 10 hours later at around 1pm and he emerged at around 2.43pm for a very brief amount of time. Brown was then arrested, near 5pm among the view of several news helicopters that swirled overhead and dozens of camera crews that gathered at the bottom of Brown’s LA hilltop estate.
Mark Geragos, Brown’s attorney, arrived at the house before police carried out the search. There’s claims that this was to get Brown to cooperate. “He’s trying to help talk some sense into [Chris],” a law enforcement source told E! News.
Chris Brown was released from jail later on Tuesday, after posting a $250,000 bail even though a felony assault with a deadly weapon conviction is meant to carry a sentence of four years in county jail, along with a $10,000 fine.
Brown’s accuser, Baylee Curran claims to be the 2016 Miss California Regional title holder, but CNN confirmed that she was stripped of her title in July.
This is also not the first time Brown has been in trouble with the police. Back in 2009, he was convicted of assaulting his then-girlfriend Rihanna, which led to six years of probation. Also, in 2013, he hit a man outside a hotel in Washington DC and was charged with misdemeanor assault. Brown was ordered to go to a rehabilitation centre as a result, but was then kicked out of the facility for breaking its rules. After completing a series of anger management classes, Brown was also later accused of throwing a brick at his mother’s car.
