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Singer Bobby Brown Arrested
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ATLANTA (AP) - Singer Bobby Brown was arrested early Thursday in Atlanta's trendy Buckhead district on drug and traffic charges.

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An officer at the Atlanta city jail said Brown was charged with possession of less than an ounce of marijuana, speeding and having no driver's license or proof of insurance.

Brown, 33, is the husband of singer Whitney Houston.

He posted bond at the Atlanta jail, but Sgt. T. Davis said Brown had a charge pending against him in neighboring DeKalb County. The officer said he didn't know what the other charge was, but said Brown would be taken to the DeKalb County Jail later Thursday.

Davis didn't know whether anyone else was in the car when Brown was arrested.

Both Brown and Houston have had drug- or alcohol-related brushes with the law in the past few years.

Brown, formerly of the '80s R&B group New Edition, spent 26 days in a Florida jail in 2000 for violating probation on a 1996 drunken-driving charge by not submitting to a drug test. Houston, 39, was charged with having marijuana in her purse at a Hawaii airport in 2000, but the misdemeanor charge was dismissed.

poor mr. brown... when's he gonna get his stuff together?

did you guys see him in ja-rules new video?


if im not mistaken hes missing a tooth or something...and looks to be high during the video lol

and in other news the sky is blue and the grass is green...bobby gets arrested on the regular

Bobby Brown Busted...Again
Thu Nov 7, 3:25 PM ET
By Julie Keller

Yet another chapter in the epic-length True Hollywood Story life of Bobby Brown.

The bad-boy hubby of Whitney Houston was arrested Thursday in the ritzy Atlanta neighborhood of Buckhead on drug charges and traffic violations. An officer at the scene said the onetime chart topper was charged with possession of less than an ounce of marijuana, speeding and having no driver's license or proof of insurance.


The police report says the trouble started when Brown was initially pulled over for speeding in his Cadillac Escalade in the wee hours of the morning. Things went progressively worse from there.

June7 said:

"I don't have an ID, but I'm Bobby Brown," the erstwhile New Jack Swing-er told the officer, per the report, a copy of which was obtained by The Smoking Gun Website.


The officer ran Brown's name and discovered a five-year-old warrant for the singer's arrest in the neighboring DeKalb County, so the officer decided to take Brown in. During the drive to the police station, Brown reportedly copped to having a bag a marijuana in his pocket. And the rest is headline-making history.


Brown, 33, posted bond soon after his arrest, but he will now have to face the outstanding warrant; he was expected to be taken to the DeKalb County Jail by Wednesday afternoon. According to CNN, Brown was busted in DeKalb in 1996 in what has become a disturbing pattern for him: DUI, speeding, erratic driving, no insurance. Brown tried to enter his plea without going the Georgia court, but Judge Wayne Purdom refused the request and wound up issuing the warrant when Brown went MIA.


Sounds similar to what went down in 2000, when Brown wound up serving 26 days in a Florida jail for violating the terms of his probation from a 1996 drunken-driving arrest in that state and refusing to take a drug test. During sentencing, he tearfully told the judge, "I have a disease. I am an addict. I am an alcoholic. Hopefully I can get back to what I do best--dancing and singing."


(That same year, Houston was nabbed in a Hawaii airport for having marijuana in her purse. A misdemeanor drug charge was eventually dismissed.)


Brown's health has also been an issue of late. He collapsed and suffered a seizure while in his New Jersey studio in August 2001, and this summer he spent three days in a Virgina hospital for an undisclosed infection.


Thursday's arrest underscores the sad fact that Brown has indeed not gotten back to his "dancing and singing roots," in spite of his courtroom promises. Though he scored solo success in the late '80s with hits like "My Prerogative" and "Don't Be Cruel," he hasn't released an album since 1997.


He is also not joining his New Edition mates for their upcoming reunion album and tour.

As for Whitney, her return to the airways has been a bit of a bust. Her recent single "Whatchulookinat?" didn't even crack the Top 40, and she is still struggling to wrap her long-delayed, still-untitled new album, which was expected to hit stores sometime in the fourth quarter.

June7 said:

rofl! at your statement and the what he said

..and as if tellin them he's Bobby was gonna get him off..shit, he should have not let them know it was his ass
[This message was edited Thu Nov 7 18:28:08 PST 2002 by rdhull]

Christopher said:

I Laughed so Hard because they are Each Other's Vocal Twins IMHO.

Again? Bobby oh,man when is the Shit gonna End?

AprilMichelle said:

I'm not surprised by this news...once a crackhead, always a crackhead! IMO he is a lost cause and if Whitney is not to careful, she will end up that way too....maybe that's too late!
[This message was edited Tue Jan 14 23:24:54 PST 2003 by fonkywonder]

Zzzz...so what else is new?

Bobby has to be more than 33 - more like 35 or 36.

Bobby,Bobby,Bobby! The eighties are gone forever go to rehab and take Whit with you. Time to grow up.

Thank the lawd he is not on the NE reunion coming up. They were much better without him. The "Heartbreak" album is a classic.

Cut Bobby some slack. He only gets arrested on days ending with "Y".

The hook on Ja Rule's "Thug Lovin" is heavy, inspired by Stevie's "Knocks Me Off My Feet" apparently. Tight beat/sample too.

I'll always check for Bobby, see what he's upto.