Tampa police issue arrest warrant for Antonio Brown; brief standoff with clothes thrown

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TAMPA, Fla. — A warrant for former Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Antonio Brown has been issued, and Tampa Police spent at least an hour trying to get him to come out of the house. ABC Action News had a crew at the scene where police used a megaphone to call out to Brown to come out of the house. Police told Brown they'd already spoken with his attorney. After using the megaphone, they continued to call out to Brown with their voices while knocking on the door. At one point, Tampa Police yelled at Brown, "we're not going anywhere."

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The protection order request, and arrest warrant, came after an incident between Brown and the mother of several of his children on Wednesday. During the incident, Tampa Police said Brown began throwing the woman's belongings out of the house. At some point before police arrived, Brown allegedly came out of the home and "threw a shoe at the victim striking her in the ponytail." By the time police arrived, Brown had allegedly locked all of the doors and windows to the home and refused to come out. TPD said Brown offered to let the children go inside the home, "but the kids did not want to go inside because they were afraid of their dad when he gets in these destructive moods." Police said they made multiple attempts to get Brown to open the home but were never successful. According to TPD, Brown had placed an informal eviction notice on the door and repeatedly said the woman had no right to be at or enter the home.

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