Family Judge Issues Warrant...
[Associated
Press Report]
Family judge issues arrest warrant for Bobby Brown
Associated Press
CANTON, Mass. - A family court judge issued an arrest warrant for singer
Bobby Brown after he failed to appear for a child support compliance
hearing.
Judge Paula Carey issued the warrant on Wednesday morning, said Patrick
McDermott, the court's Register of Probate. The warrant can only be executed
in Massachusetts, he said.
McDermott said a local counsel for Brown told the court the singer became
ill en route to catch a flight to Boston and was taken to a hospital in
Atlanta, but neither she nor court officials were able to get confirmation.
He said the judge might have postponed the hearing with such confirmation.
"We'd be happy to listen to that excuse if there were some proof to back it
up," McDermott said.
Brown's local counsel, Melissa Whish, did not immediately return a telephone
call seeking comment. Brown's lawyer in Georgia, Phaedra Parks, could not
immediately be reached for comment.
Brown lives in Alpharetta, Ga., with his wife, singer Whitney Houston. He
has two children with Kim Ward of Stoughton.
Brown has failed to make payments toward an educational trust he promised to
fund for those two children and has also not proven he has a source of
income, McDermott said. Brown is also late making his most recent monthly
child support payment, due at 5 p.m. Wednesday, McDermott said.
Brown previously told Carey he had money coming in from reality TV and music
projects.
Brown, a Roxbury native, was sentenced to 90 days in prison last June for
missing three months' worth of child support payments. That sentence was
immediately suspended after Brown made back payments totaling about $15,000.
If Carey finds Brown has violated the terms of the court order, she can
impose her previous 90-day sentence, McDermott said.
Brown was also jailed for a day in March 2004 after he failed to pay $63,000
he owed Ward. He was released after making the payment.
NEWSFILE: 1 JUNE 2005
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