*Chris Brown is due in a DC courtroom today for his misdemeanor assault charge, and is reportedly looking to get this case behind him as quickly as possible.
According to the Washington Post, he’s said to be working out a plea deal with District prosecutors. If no deal is reached, of course, he’s headed to trial in the Nation’s Capital.
Meanwhile, his April “con-air” flight from Los Angeles to DC was revealed to have cost taxpayers more than $4,000.
The breakdown of the April trip was provided to The Associated Press as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request. The tab includes jail stays, airfare and other transportation costs. The U.S. Marshals Service, which transported Brown, said in a statement Tuesday that it uses the “safest and most cost-effective means to transport” inmates.
Prosecutors wanted Brown in Washington to face trial on a charge of hitting a man outside the W hotel in October 2013. At the time, Brown was still on probation in California for a 2009 attack on the singer Rihanna, his then girlfriend.
When his trial was set to start in Washington, Brown was in a Los Angeles jail after being kicked out of a court-ordered rehab facility.
Records show Brown’s trip began April 1 when he was moved to a jail in San Bernardino County, about an hour east of Los Angeles. He spent two days there before being driven to catch a plane. The cost of transportation and lodging was about $1,000, records show.
From there, the Marshals Service group responsible for flying prisoners across country, sometimes called “Con Air,” took over and flew Brown to the D.C. area. That cost: $1,193. Three weeks of housing at the Northern Neck Regional Jail in Warsaw, Virginia, about two hours south of Washington, cost $55 a day, the jail said.
Source eurweb.com
