Former NFL star Antonio Brown is in US Marshals custody after being extradited from Dubai on an attempted murder charge, the Florida State Attorney’s office in Miami has confirmed to the Daily Mail.
Brown was accused of trying to shoot and kill a man at a boxing event in Florida last May, but has since been in Dubai, as seen in several social media posts.
‘Antonio Brown has been a fugitive on an outstanding criminal charge in Miami-Dade County,’ a spokesperson for the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office told Daily Mail in a statement.
‘I have been informed that he was extradited from Dubai and is in custody in New Jersey pending his return to Miami-Dade County.
Miami-Dade County police have wanted the Super Bowl winner onan attempted second-degree murder charge since June. If convicted, the Super Bowl winner could face up to 15 years in prison.
Antonio Brown is reportedly in US Marshals custody after being extradited from Dubai
Zül-Qarnaįn Nantambu, who goes by ‘@fff_zulqarnain‘ on Instagram, shared photos of his injuries with Daily Mail. Nantambu says a bullet grazed his neck and he broke a finger
Although he initially claimed self defense, Brown was actually the instigator, one combatant told Daily Mail back in May.
That man, Zül-Qarnaįn Nantambu, claimed the troubled former NFL star shot at him, possibly in response to a legal battle between the two in federal bankruptcy court.
As seen in court files obtained by Daily Mail, Nantambu claimed during a 2022 encounter with Brown in Dubai that the Super Bowl winner stole a valuable pendant he had designed and produced. Nantambu further said Brown lied to police in the United Arab Emirates, accusing him of theft and resulting in Nantambu’s brief imprisonment.
Nantambu sued Brown in Florida in 2022 and ultimately won a $968,960 verdict that was later vacated in 2024 before the case was dismissed. However, Nantambu is now pursuing a partial reduced judgement of $123,600 in federal bankruptcy court as Brown has continued to deny his allegations, as seen those filings.
So it came as a tremendous surprise to Nantambu when he noticed Brown had ‘locked eyes’ with him at an Adin Ross boxing event in Miami. Rather than discussing their dispute or ignoring his legal rival entirely, Brown immediately called over to security to falsely claim he was being jumped, Nantambu said.
‘He plays gangster and plays the police at the same time, then he blames CTE,’ Nantambu told Daily Mail, referencing Brown’s frequent claims of traumatic brain injuries.
Antonio Brown has been accused of lying about the shocking brawl he was involved in Friday by Zül-Qarnaįn Nantambu, 41, who claims he was grazed by a bullet from Brown’s gun
In a picture purportedly from Dubai in 2022, Zül-Qarnaįn Nantambu is seen standing on a yacht. As he told Daily Mail, it’s Antonio Brown who is pictured wearing red in the background
Brown is purportedly seen wearing the pendant he’s accused of stealing from Nantambu
As Nantambu told Daily Mail, he believed the retired Pittsburgh Steelers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers star called security on him to create a false pretense for Friday’s shooting.
‘I don’t know if [Brown] premeditated a thought in his mind, like: “Okay, I’m gonna say that he tried to take my chain and I’m gonna kill him and I don’t have to pay him his judgment,”‘ Nantambu told Daily Mail.
‘He thought he would get a free kill,’ Nantambu said, referencing Florida’s notorious ‘Stand Your Ground’ law that permits deadly force under certain heightened circumstances.
One video, provided to Daily Mail by Nantambu, shows him fighting with a group of men before an individual matching Brown’s description abruptly flees. Another viral video of the incident appears to show Brown returning to the melee with a gun in hand.
‘He ran to get the gun. He shot at me. I think he grazed my neck. We started fighting for the gun,’ Nantambu said. ‘The adrenaline is going crazy. He ran into me. I threw him on the ground. A gun fell. We start scrambling for the gun on the ground.’
Brown posted video of himself on X riding a bicycle down a non-descript street in a desert setting. The former Pittsburgh Steelers star added the hashtag: ‘#lovefromthemiddleeast’
Brown claimed to be in Iran in another dubious social media post amid his outstanding warrant
It was at this point cops arrived, according to Nantambu.
‘The police are screaming: “Who has the gun?”‘ Nantambu told Daily Mail. ‘Kids are screaming: “AB shooting! AB shooting!” He could have hit one of them kids.’
Brown was later apprehended nearby, but despite the violent uproar, Miami police made no arrests and Brown later wrote on X he was considering potential legal action against ‘the individuals that jumped me.’
Meanwhile, the police apparently ignored Nantambu, who claimed to walk away from the scene with one shoe ‘like Cinderella’ and blood dripping from a neck wound that could have been far worse.
‘I’m feeling this burning sensation on my neck,’ Nantambu told Daily Mail. ‘I thank God I’m not murdered. God spared me from getting shot in the face.’
From there, Nantambu went to the hospital for the neck wound and a broken finger before flying to the Beltway the following morning for an event supporting Sudanese refugees.
