Former NFL player Sergio Brown was taken into custody this week in Mexico on a fugitive warrant for the murder of his mother last month, and the ex-safety battled with Mexican officers on board a plane bringing him back to the United States to face the charges.
A passenger shot the video as the Aeromexico plane sat on the tarmac on Sunday in Mexico City, KFMB reported. The plane was going first to Tijuana, where Mexican immigration officers were to hand him over to US officials.
“They’re kidnapping me … I’m from Chicago,” Brown yells while trying to fight off the officers. “I should not be going to Tijuana.”
“Let me go. This is kidnapping,” Brown says.
As CrimeOnline previously reported, family members notified Maywood police that they were unable to contact Brown or his 73-year-old mother, Myrtle Brown. Police later found Myrtle Brown dead in a creek near her suburban Maywood home on September 16.
Brown, 35, made a video calling his mother’s death “fake news” and blamed the FBI. In that video, he said he thought his mother was “on vacation” in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. The post was initially tagged in Mexico but was deleted and reposted on another of his accounts without the location.
After tThe Cook County Medical Examiner’s Officer ruled Myrtle Brown’s death a homicide, saying she “multiple injuries due to assault,” police obtained a warrant for her son’s arrest.
Michelle Williams, the US citizen who shot the video of Brown on the plane, told KFMB that it took the Mexican officers 90 minutes to get him off the plane. He was eventually brought to Tijuana and was taken into US custody on Tuesday at the San Ysdro border crossing.
Brown is being held in the San Diego jail without bail and has waived his right to an extradition hearing. Maywood officers have 30 days to pick him up and take him back to Illinois.
Brown signed with five NFL teams across seven season from 2010 to 2016.
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[Featured image: Michelle Williams via KFMB]
