Antonio Brown, a former NFL standout, has been taken into custody by the US Marshals following his extradition from Dubai on charges of attempted murder. This development was confirmed by the Florida State Attorney’s office in Miami, as reported by the Daily Mail.

The allegations against Brown stem from an incident at a Florida boxing event last May, where he is accused of attempting to shoot a man. Despite these charges, Brown had been residing in Dubai, frequently sharing updates on social media during his stay there.

A representative from the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office told the Daily Mail, “Antonio Brown has been evading an active criminal charge in Miami-Dade County.” They further explained he was extradited from Dubai and is currently held in New Jersey, awaiting transfer back to Miami-Dade County.

Authorities in Miami-Dade County have been pursuing Brown on attempted second-degree murder charges since June. If found guilty, the former Super Bowl champion could be sentenced to as much as 15 years in prison.

While Brown initially claimed he acted in self-defense against alleged jewel thieves, one of the individuals involved told the Daily Mail in May that Brown was the actual aggressor in the altercation.

Although he initially claimed to be defending himself form would-be jewel thieves, Brown was actually the instigator, one combatant told Daily Mail back in May. 

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 

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 has since pursued a partial reduced judgement of $123,600 in federal bankruptcy court as Brown continued to deny the allegations of theft, 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 last May. 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 the May 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 the jewelry designer 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.

According to the warrant, Brown punched Nantambu before the ex-NFL star ran for his gun 

An outspoken supporter of Sudan and Palestine who also works in filmmaking, fashion and music, Nantambu made national headlines in February when he was among the protestors who stormed the field during halftime at Super Bowl LIX.

He has since been charged with resisting a police officer and disturbing the peace by interrupting a lawful assembly. 

Interestingly, Nantambu actually met Brown three years prior to the shooting in Dubai while both were in town for a Floyd Mayweather Jr. exhibition.  

A proud Muslim already familiar to the area, Nantambu said he arrived in Dubai in May of 2022 to discover a shirtless Brown being ‘disrespectful’ to customs officials at the airport.

‘He was cursing them out and all that,’ Nantambu told Daily Mail.

Nantambu was in Dubai hoping to convince Mayweather to help him promote a pendant necklace he was selling. And since Brown and Mayweather were known acquaintances, Nantambu used the bit of Arabic he speaks to help calm tensions at the airport: ‘I intervened to try to quell it, because they weren’t going to let him in the country.’

Brown was, perhaps, at the height of his infamy at the time. It was only a few months earlier that he ended a sideline spat with Buccaneers coaches by removing his uniform and running off the field during a game, never to play in the NFL again.

But despite Brown’s well-reported personal and professional problems, Nantambu approached him as they waited for their baggage. The two began talking, and as Nantambu remembers, they ended up hanging out on a yacht with Mayweather prior to the fight.

When fight night came around, Nantambu said, he agreed to let Brown wear the pendant with disastrous consequences. 

‘He basically tried to steal it,’ Nantambu said. ‘He moved hotel rooms, left the hotel, stopped answering calls. And then when I confronted him about the pendant, he acted like he lost it.’

Nantambu was among protestors who stormed the field at Super Bowl LIX to support Sudan

Nantambu said Brown gave him some of his own jewelry to hold as collateral, but later allegedly lied to police in Dubai, falsely claiming that the valuables were stolen from Brown by Nantambu.

‘He told them that I stole $2 million worth of jewelry from him,’ said Nantambu, who has yet to get his pendant back from Brown. 

Nantambu was released approximately one month later after presenting evidence to a local prosecutor that proved Brown made false claims to police, according to the court filing obtained by DailyMail.com.

Since then, Nantambu has waged a legal battle with Brown, who continues to go through bankruptcy proceedings despite boasting on a podcast one year ago that he has ‘the freedom that comes with having money.’

However, according to Nantambu, mounting debt has forced Brown to sell his jewelry collection, which he’s replaced with faux gems. 

‘Well, first off, I know that chain is fake that he’s wearing,’ Nantambu said of Brown. ‘He pawned all his real jewelry, the jewelry that he used to have in Dubai, like the gold Cuban-link [necklace] and the Richard Mille [watch] and the gold medallion that said “A B” – he got rid of all that.’