Family Judge Issues Warrant...

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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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