Foxy Brown Sent To Jail For Violating Probation

By: Yves Erwin Salomon

Rapper Foxy Brown is behind bars after a judge found her guilty of violating the terms of her probation. The rapper was placed on three years probation for assaulting two manicurists in 2004, but after two recent run-ins with the law, Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Melissa Jackson decided enough was enough.

Brown will be held at the all-women Rose M. Singer Center at Rikers Island prison until her next court date on September 7th.

MTV.com reports that Jackson ruled that the rapper violated the terms of her probation because of her recent arrest for allegedly assaulting her neighbor with a BlackBerry cell phone last month and for leaving the jurisdiction of New York without court permission.

No explanation was given for the latter violation, but it may stem from Brown's run-in with authorities in New Jersey last week. The rapper is accused of lying to a police officer during a traffic stop in New Jersey on Wednesday, August 15th. The rapper was stopped for talking on a cell phone and failing to stop at a stop sign. When questioned by police, she gave officers a variation of her real name and a date of birth that was a year off. After getting the correct information from the rapper, officers learned that her license was suspended. She was taken to police headquarters and issued seven traffic tickets.

In addition to the BlackBerry incident and the traffic stop, Brown is still facing charges in Florida for allegedly spitting and throwing glue on the owner of a beauty supply store. The case is slated to go to trial next month.

The rapper's lawyer, New York State Senator Jack Sampson, believes incarceration isn't the answer since Brown will be acquitted in her Brooklyn and Florida cases. He told the New York Post, "You have to let the criminal prosecution in Brooklyn and Florida run their course. These are just allegations."