The New York City
Department of Probation is seeking to have rapper Foxy Brown incarcerated, after
she was arrested outside of a beauty supply store Thursday (Feb. 15) in Pembroke
Pines, FL.Brown
was sentenced to anger management classes and three years probation in Oct. 2006,
for assaulting two Manhattan nail salon employees over a $20 manicure in Aug.
2004.According
to Jack Ryan, a spokesman for the New York City Department of Probation, Brown
never had permission from her probation officer to travel to Florida. "We
are asking the court to violate her probation and incarcerate her," Ryan
told The New York Post. Brown
now faces up to a year in prison for violating the terms of her probation.The
fracas started while Brown and an associate were sampling beauty products at the
Queen Beauty Supply Store in Pembroke Pines. According
to Queen Beauty Supply Store owner Sam Hayssam, he asked Brown to leave, because
the store was closing. "I
told them they had to leave," Hayssam told local CBS 4. "She said ‘I
have to finish my hair, the glue is not working right and I need a different kind
of glue so I can finish my hair."Hayssam
said he told Brown the store "was not a salon" and that’s when Brown
threw the hair glue and spit on him, before exiting the store. Police
arrived and found Brown in the shopping center and attempted to escort her back
to the Queen Beauty Supply Store. "I
placed my hand on the defendants arm to escort her back and she swatted my hand
away," the arresting officer wrote in his police report. "The defendant
then started swinging her arms and struggling with me. I was forced to utilize
a take down maneuver to gain control of the defendant."Brown,
born Inga Marchand, was charged with battery and resisting an officer with violence.
She was released from jail yesterday (Feb. 16) afternoon, after a $1500 bond was
posted. Local
CBS 4 caught footage of Brown, 27, and an unknown associate in a lime green running
from the jail, into an awaiting cab. Yesterday
(Feb. 16), the store produced surveillance footage of Brown entering the store
with an unknown female associate. None
of the alleged incident was caught on the surveillance footage and Brown appears
to be calm upon exiting the store, while Hayssam is using his mobile phone, presumably
calling police.A
man named James, who identified himself as Brown’s brother, said that the reports
detailing Brown’s arrest are false. "Anything
alleged, it never happened. Everybody wants to soup something up and make it seem
bigger than what it is," James Marchand said.
