R&B Singer Charged with Assault, Making Criminal Threats

R&B Singer Charged with
Assault, Making Criminal Threats

March 5, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts: Joe Scott, Director of Communications
Sandi Gibbons, Public Information Officer
Jane Robison, News Secretary
Shiara Dávila-Morales, Assistant PIO
(213) 974-3525

LOS ANGELES – R&B singer Chris Brown was charged by the District Attorney’s office today with felony counts of assault and making criminal threats in connection with a February incident in which his girlfriend allegedly was physically attacked.

Case No. BA353571, filed by the District Attorney’s Family Violence Division, charged Brown, 19 (dob 5-5-1989), with one count each of assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury and making criminal threats. The complaint alleged the crimes occurred “on or between” Feb. 7 and Feb. 8 when the defendant and the victim, identified only as Robyn F., were driving to a residence in the Hancock Park area.

Brown is scheduled to appear for arraignment after 3:30 p.m. today in Department 30 of Los Angeles Superior Court, fifth floor, Criminal Justice Center, 210 W. Temple St. He has been free on $50,000 bail since his arrest on Feb. 8 by Los Angeles police.

The case will be prosecuted by Deputy District Attorney Mary Murray of the Family Violence Division.

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