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FOXY BROWN REFUSES TO GET ON PRISON BUS.(Life and Arts)(PEOPLE)

Article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Article date: October 15, 2007

Foxy Brown, who is serving a one-year jail term in New York, twice refused to get on a correction department bus Friday for a court appearance.

The 28-year-old rapper was arrested in August and accused of striking Arlene Raymond, 25, after the pair got into a fight July 30 over Brown's blasting her car stereo near her home in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

On Friday, Brown refused to be taken from Rikers Island prison to be arraigned in Brooklyn Supreme Court.

She is now scheduled to appear in court Tuesday, ...

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