Ex-NFL player Sergio Brown arrested, charged with murder after mother’s body found near creek

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Former NFL player Sergio Brown was arrested by law enforcement on Tuesday in connection with the death of his mother, whose body was found near a creek behind her home in Illinois last month, police said Wednesday. 

Brown, 35, was taken into custody after trying to re-enter the United States into California from Mexico by the San Diego Police Department Threat Management Unit and several other agencies, including local and federal, after a warrant for his arrest was issued in Illinois. 

Sergio Brown of the Colts reacts after breaking up a pass intended for Jermaine Gresham of the Cincinnati Bengals on Oct. 19, 2014, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. (Kirk Irwin/Getty Images)

He was arrested on a first degree murder charge in connection with the homicide of his mother, 73-year-old Myrtle Brown. He is currently awaiting extradition to Illinois. 

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Myrtle Brown was found dead near a creek behind her home in Maywood, Illinois, on Sept. 16, an area just 12 miles west of Chicago. Family members had reported Brown and his mother missing. 

Police were still attempting to locate Brown late last month when he appeared in videos on social media discussing the reports about his mother’s death. 

"Fake news. Fake news. Fake news," Brown said in the video in which he tagged ESPN. "It has to be the FBI that came into my house on Bob Marley’s death day with the 511 haze and gas unwarranted. They kidnapped me twice from home – the Maywood Police Department. It had to be the FBI or the Maywood police."

Sergio Brown of the Colts on the sideline during the