Antonio Brown waives extradition, will return to Miami - ESPN

Former NFL player Antonio Brown will return to Miami from a New Jersey jail after deciding not to contest his extradition to Florida on an attempted murder charge, officials said Friday.

Brown, 37, was brought to the jail in Essex County, New Jersey, after his arrest by U.S. Marshals in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He waived extradition at a brief court hearing Friday.

«Brown is back at the Essex County Jail in Newark where he is awaiting pickup by Florida authorities,» said Carmen Martin, spokesperson for the Essex County Prosecutor's Office.

According to an arrest warrant, Brown is accused of grabbing a handgun from a security staffer after a celebrity boxing match on May 16 and firing two shots at a man he had gotten into a fistfight with earlier. The victim, Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu, told investigators one of the bullets grazed his neck.

«Cellphone video obtained from social media showed Mr. Brown with the firearm in his hand advancing toward Mr. Nantambu on the outside walk. The video captures two shots which occur as Mr. Brown is within several feet of Mr. Nantambu,» the arrest affidavit says. «The video also captures Mr. Nantambu ducking after the first shot is heard.'

Brown was not immediately arrested that night because initially police did not identify Nantambu as a victim. It wasn't until May 21 that Nantambu gave a full statement about the incident to police and identified Brown as the shooter, the affidavit says.

Based on his social media posts, Brown had been living in Dubai for several months. It wasn't immediately clear why it took investigators so long to arrest him, or why he was brought to New Jersey rather than Miami. It also wasn't clear from court or jail records if Brown has a lawyer.

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