Chris Brown Will Not be Charged for Cell Phone Incident

By: Taren Vaughan

Will Chris Brown be charged for snatching a cell phone from a fan at a nightclub for trying to take a picture of him? The past few days for Chris Brown have been quite crazy. It all started when Chris got into a heated exchange with Comedic Writer Jenny Johnson on Twitter that led him to get off of the social network completely and Johnson getting threatened by some of the loyal members of Team Breezy. A number of his supporters continue to hype of his reunion with ex-girlfriend Rihanna, Rihanna’s fans not on the same page though as some of them are against her getting back with him. And the two continue to make people question what they really are to each other as more pictures keep hitting the web, courtesy of Ri Ri.

As for Chris’ fans, they usually jump to his defense most of the time, but he has in the past managed to piss some of them off too. And now it looks like he has just lost another one. While down partying at a club down in Florida, a fan of Chris’ tried to take a picture of him with her phone. And Chris wasn’t at all trying to let her as the singer grabbed the woman’s phone from her. But although he took the phone from the excited fan trying to snap a pic of him, he will not be facing any criminal charges over the incident.

Here’s the scoop on the cellphone snatching incident that Chris was involved in:

Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown will not face criminal charges for snatching a woman’s cellphone when she tried to snap a photo of him outside a Miami Beach club, prosecutors said Friday.

A memo released Friday by Miami-Dade County State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle concludes there is no evidence that Brown intended to steal the phone in February or that he deleted any photos. One or the other is necessary for him to be charged with robbery or theft.

Prosecutors said that Brown tossed the phone from his limo and that it was picked up by Devon Blanche, head of security for rapper Tyga, who had performed with Brown at the Cameo club that night. According to the memo, Blanche tried to find out if someone had lost the phone, ultimately took it with him to Atlanta during the rapper’s tour and said he intended to find its owner.

Rundle said the investigation’s findings would be forwarded to probation officials in Los Angeles for review.

“We are grateful for the decision and the thorough investigation,” Brown’s attorney Mark Geragos said in an email.

According to the memo, after Brown and Tyga – real name Michael Stevenson – finished their performances, both got into separate limos to head for their hotels. Witnesses told prosecutors about 30 female fans gathered outside Brown’s vehicle, at least one of whom reached inside to take a photo. Brown was accompanied by at least two women in the limo.

Stevenson told prosecutors that he saw Brown throw a white cellphone out of the limo. The phone’s owner, Christal Spann, said Brown used a derogatory term for women and said “this will not run the website” when he grabbed the phone. Spann began beating on the limo’s windows, according to the memo, until someone in a front seat told her the phone had been tossed out. She could not find it, however.

“She used to be a fan of Brown’s, but no longer,” the memo notes of Spann.

Blanche, the security man, told investigators he thought Brown was upset because “if photographs of himself with two females got out, it might cause him problems with Rihanna.”

Chris Brown may have escaped any criminal charges from the incident. But another member of Team Breezy bites the dust. And as for his relationship with Rihanna, the tidbit about why he wanted to snatch up the fan’s cell phone in the first place just continues to fuel the rumors that he and Rihanna are more than friends at this point.