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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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Foxy Brown's row over loud stereo ends in conviction.(News)

Article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) Article date: May 10, 2008

Byline: Rocky Mountain News

Rapper Foxy Brown has pleaded guilty to menacing a neighbor with her cell phone last year. She avoided jail based on time already served. Brown and neighbor Arlene Raymond got into a fight last July over Brown blasting her car stereo outside their Brooklyn apartment building. As part of the plea deal, the 28-year-old rapper wrote a letter apologizing to Raymond. Brown presented the letter to Justice John Walsh in a Brooklyn court on Thursday.

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