--- title: Chris Brown in Custody of U.S. Marshals description: Agents will escort the R&B singer from a Los Angles jail to his misdemeanor assault hearing in Washington, D.C. canonical: https://time.com/48874/chris-brown-u-s-marshals-trial/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-03T20:24:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T07:07:43.023Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Chris Brown in Custody of U.S. Marshals og:description: Agents will escort the R&B singer from a Los Angles jail to his misdemeanor assault hearing in Washington, D.C. og:url: https://time.com/48874/chris-brown-u-s-marshals-trial/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt87088abfc69aeb43/698688dc3bc999b57a1a2be8/time-a-chris-brown-assault-140403.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Chris Brown appears in Los Angeles Superior Court og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Chris Brown in Custody of U.S. Marshals twitter:description: Agents will escort the R&B singer from a Los Angles jail to his misdemeanor assault hearing in Washington, D.C. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt87088abfc69aeb43/698688dc3bc999b57a1a2be8/time-a-chris-brown-assault-140403.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Chris Brown Is Now in Custody of U.S. Marshals  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Apr 3, 2014 8:24 PM UTC  Chris Brown appears in Los Angeles Superior Court, March 17, 2014. Chris Brown appears in Los Angeles Superior Court, March 17, 2014.Lucy Nicholson—AP  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Apr 3, 2014 8:24 PM UTC [Federal Marshals took singer Chris Brown into custody](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US%5FPEOPLE%5FCHRIS%5FBROWN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT) Thursday afternoon to bring him to a pre-trial hearing in Washington, D.C. later this week for a misdemeanor assault trial. Marshals spokeswoman Laura Vega told the Associated Press that Brown was transfered from a Los Angeles jail into Marshal custody on Wednesday. In D.C., Brown and his bodyguard, Chis Hollosy, face misdemeanor charges for allegedly assaulting a 20-year-old outside a W Hotel in Maryland in October. The alleged victim says that when he tried to get into a picture with Brown, the singer told him, “I’m not down with that gay \[expletive\]” and “I feel like boxing.” The man was treated at the hospital for a broken nose, [according to NBC Washington](http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Chris-Brown-Taken-Into-Custody-by-US-Marshals-Will-Be-Brought-to-DC-for-Trial-253789781.html?%5Fosource=SocialFlowTwt%5FDCBrand). Brown has been in a L.A. jail since mid-March. A judge ordered that the R&B star be taken into custody after he was dismissed from court-mandated rehab in Malibu. \[[_AP_](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US%5FPEOPLE%5FCHRIS%5FBROWN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/48874/chris-brown-u-s-marshals-trial/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/48874/chris-brown-u-s-marshals-trial/"},"headline":"Chris Brown Is Now in Custody of U.S. Marshals","datePublished":"2014-04-03T20:24:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:07:43.023Z","description":"Agents will escort the R&B singer from a Los Angeles jail to his misdemeanor assault hearing in Washington, D.C. 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