Pop star Chris Brown was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly
weapon on Tuesday after a daylong standoff and search at his Los
Angeles home that began when a woman called 911 in the predawn hours,
police said.
Brown,
27, denied any wrongdoing in posts on Instagram before he was taken
into custody and said he had woken up to find police outside the
property in the Tarzana neighborhood in Los Angeles' San Fernando
Valley.
"He
is being transported to robbery homicide, where he will be arrested for
assault with a deadly weapon, Lieutenant Chris Ramirez of the Los
Angeles Police Department told reporters at an impromptu media
conference outside Brown's home.
Ramirez
declined to elaborate on the charges against Brown, saying an
investigation was still under way. Earlier TMZ.com and the Los Angeles
Times reported that the singer had pointed a gun at the woman, who later
left the property.
Police
who responded to the 911 emergency call at around 3 a.m. spent hours
surrounding the home before obtaining a search warrant and beginning a
search of the sprawling premises in the early afternoon.
During
that search, TMZ posted a photo of Brown standing on the front porch
with a police officer and his attorney, Mark Geragos. Geragos could not
be reached by Reuters for comment.
"I
don't sleep half the damn night I just wake up to all these ...
helicopters, choppers is around, police out there at the gate," Brown
said in a video he posted on Instagram as police were stationed outside
his house.
"What
I do care about is you are defacing my name and my character and
integrity," he added, saying he had done nothing wrong and criticizing
police actions.
"I
don't care y'all going to stay playing with me like I'm the villain out
here, like I'm going crazy ... good luck when you get the warrant or
whatever you need to do. You're going to walk right up in here and
you're going to see nothing you idiots," he added.
In
2009, Brown assaulted his then-girlfriend Rihanna, and in 2015 finished
a lengthy term of probation, community service and domestic violence
classes.