Singer Chris Brown
and a bodyguard were arrested Sunday morning and charged with felony
assault, the Washington Metropolitan Police Department said.
Brown and bodyguard
Christopher Hollosy were allegedly involved in an altercation with
another man outside the W Hotel at 4:25 a.m., police said.
The two were taken into
custody and were being held at the Second District police station,
police said. Both men were later transferred to a central jail cell
block for processing, police said,
The alleged victim was
taken to a hospital for treatment of injuries, police spokesman Anthony
Clay told CNN. He was released later Sunday morning.
Chris Brown charged with assault in D.C.
Brown, 24, was in
Washington to host a "homecoming party" at The Park at Fourteen
nightclub Saturday night, according to his Twitter feed, just four
blocks away from where he was arrested Sunday morning.
His representative and lawyer did not immediately respond to CNN calls for comment Sunday.
Brown is on probation in
California for a felony domestic violence conviction involving his
former girlfriend Rihanna. Any arrest could be considered a violation of
that probation, which could result in jail time.
Prosecutors filed
probation violation charges against him twice in the past year,
resulting in the judge ordering him to complete an additional 1,000
hours of community service.
Brown was arrested in
February 2009 for punching Rihanna inside a rented Lamborghini on a
Hollywood street. The altercation left the face of Rihanna, also a
chart-topping singer, bruised and bloody on the eve of the Grammy
Awards.
He entered a guilty plea
seven months later and was sentenced to serve five years probation and
ordered to spend more than 1,400 hours in "labor-oriented service."
His probation reports
were glowing until the past year, when the district attorney's office
accused him of not completing the 1,400 hours of community labor, which
he was allowed to do in his home state of Virginia.
He was also accused of
hit-and-run after a minor traffic crash earlier this year. The driver of
the other car told investigators that Brown "went ballistic" and
screamed at her after his Range Rover rear-ended her Mercedes on a Los
Angeles street.
In August, Brown's
lawyer reached a settlement with prosecutors to end their efforts to
revoke his probation. The deal called for Brown to complete another
1,000 hours of community service.
Probation rules require
Brown to stay out of all legal trouble. Even an arrest that does not
lead to a conviction could result in a probation violation charge.
He is scheduled to
appear before Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James Brandlin on
November 20 for a probation status hearing.
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