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Barry Werner

Report: Cops say Antonio Brown destroyed security camera

It’s been a couple of weeks of play for Antonio Brown as a Tampa Bay Buccaneer. Of course, a month couldn’t go by without a report the wide receiver was up to no good …. before he signed with Tampa Bay, of course.

The Miami Herald reported on Monday police are accusing Brown of destroying a security camera in the luxury community he lives.

Per the Herald:

Antonio Brown, the superstar wide receiver who recently returned to the NFL after a slew of off-the-field troubles, was accused last month of angrily destroying a surveillance camera at the gated community in Hollywood where he lives and throwing his bicycle at a security-guard shack, according to a police report obtained by the Herald.

Hollywood police determined it had probable cause to charge Brown with misdemeanor criminal mischief for the Oct. 15 incident, the report said. But the homeowners association president declined to press charges, according to the report, police saying she feared Brown “may retaliate against her employees.”

The incident, which had not previously been made public, was only the latest for Brown, who wassigned by Tampa Bay less than two weeks after the fracas at the luxury Hollywood Oaks development. The Hollywood police department “exceptionally cleared” the case on Nov. 5, according to the report.

The Home Owners Association President gave the wideout the benefit of the doubt, sort of …

“It’s not that we’re afraid of him,” Berman told the Herald. Instead, she said, the board thought the incident was too minor to press charges and Brown had agreed to replace the broken camera.

 

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