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[From Billboard]

Bobby Brown Arrested In Atlanta

Singer Bobby Brown was arrested early this morning (Nov. 7) in Atlanta's trendy Buckhead district on drug and traffic charges. An officer at the Atlanta city jail said Brown was charged with possession of less than an ounce of marijuana, speeding, and having no driver's license or proof of insurance.

Brown, 33, is the husband of singer Whitney Houston. He posted bond at the Atlanta jail, but Sgt. T. Davis said Brown had a charge pending against him in neighboring DeKalb County. The officer said he didn't know what the other charge was, but said Brown would be taken to the DeKalb County Jail later today. Davis didn't know whether anyone else was in the car when Brown was arrested.

Both Brown and Houston have had drug- or alcohol-related brushes with the law in the past few years. Brown, formerly of the '80s R&B group New Edition, spent 26 days in a Florida jail in 2000 for violating probation on a 1996 drunken-driving charge by not submitting to a drug test.

Houston, 39, was charged with having marijuana in her purse at a Hawaii airport in 2000, but the misdemeanor charge was dismissed.

NEWSFILE: 7 NOVEMBER 2002