Former NFL star Antonio Brown says he was ‘temporarily detained’ after Miami brawl

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He posted to X: ‘I WENT HOME THAT NIGHT AND WAS NOT ARRESTED’

FILE - Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Antonio Brown (81) walks connected the tract during an NFL shot crippled against the New York Jets, Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022, successful East Rutherford, N.J. No charges volition beryllium filed against erstwhile NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown pursuing an evident home incidental astatine a Tampa, Florida, location successful precocious November, prosecutors said Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger, File) (Adam Hunger, Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

MIAMI – Former NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown, who has a past of run-ins with the law, disputed reports that helium was arrested again overnight Saturday successful his autochthonal South Florida.

Brown, 38, said Miami constabulary detained ― but didn’t apprehension ― him aft a brawl astatine a boxing lawsuit astatine a warehouse successful the city’s Little Haiti neighborhood.

Police said they had received a ShotSpotter alert astatine astir 3 a.m. astatine Northeast Second Avenue and 67th Street.

Miami constabulary confirmed that their officers made nary arrests.

“They initiated an investigation, which included canvassing the country and interviewing respective individuals,” Officer Kiara Delva, a Miami Police Department spokesperson, said successful an email to Local 10 News Saturday morning. “No arrests were made and nary injured persons were located successful transportation with the call.”

She added, “The probe continues.”

The seven-time Pro Bowler, Super Bowl champion and Miami Norland Senior High School graduate, who retired from pro shot aft past playing successful 2021, posted to societal media level X that helium was ”jumped by aggregate individuals who tried to bargain my jewelry and origin carnal harm to me."

“Contrary to immoderate video circulating, Police temporarily detained maine until they received my broadside of the communicative and past released me,” helium said. “I WENT HOME THAT NIGHT AND WAS NOT ARRESTED.”

He added, “I volition beryllium talking to my ineligible assembly (sic) and attorneys connected pressing charges connected the individuals that jumped me.

Regarding the boxing lawsuit that happened past night. I was jumped by aggregate individuals who tried to bargain my jewelry and origin carnal harm to me. Contrary to immoderate video circulating, Police temporarily detained maine until they received my broadside of the communicative and past released me.…

— AB (@AB84) May 17, 2025

People who recorded the combat said it happened astatine a abstraction that fashionable streamer Adin Ross rented out.

The proprietor of the warehouse told Local 10 News newsman Hannah Yechivi he’s livid astir the fight, saying helium retained an lawyer and volition footwear retired the radical who rented the abstraction from him.

Though Saturday’s incidental did not extremity successful an arrest, Brown is wide known for being astatine the halfway of aggregate off-the-field issues, including South Florida arrests aft authorities said helium failed to wage kid support and fought a moving motortruck driver successful Hollywood, an incidental for which helium yet received probation. The operator aboriginal received a $1.2 cardinal civilian verdict.