Foxy Brown Doesn't Talk, Assault Suspect Walks
Date: Friday - June 29, 2007
Info Provided by Jolene "foxxylady" Petipas

The woman charged with attacking Foxy Brown outside a Brooklyn housing project this past weekend has been released from Rikers Island after the Brooklyn bred rapper refused to testify to a grand jury about the incident.

As SOHH previously reported, Roshawn Anthony, 23, was charged with assault and robbery charges in connection with the attack on Foxy Brown outside Louis H. Pink Houses on Saturday night (June 23).

Anthony was allegedly one of three women who were summoned by Brown's boyfriend to attack the rapper after she reportedly dumped him for being a pimp. The women stole Brown's $500 handbag, necklaces, and her hearing aid.

According to The New York Daily News, the district attorney's office had until 5 p.m. yesterday (June 28) to indict Anthony but she was let go after Brown refused to testify.

Anthony, who has denied the charges, had been held since Monday (June 25) on $50,000 bail but state law prohibits jailing suspects for more than 120 hours unless an indictment is filed.

Brown's ex-boyfriend has been identified by authorities as Timothy Collier, 33, a small-time pimp. Neighbors said they had seen Brown and Collier together over the past few weeks but had not seen Collier since Monday.

Brown, who initially cooperated with police, stopped talking to the authorities and denied the assault when reporters approached her the day after news of her attack surfaced.

On Tuesday (June 26), Chaz Williams, CEO of Black Hand Entertainment, which manages Foxy, claims the rapper wasn't cooperating because she got the bag back with all of her stuff and claimed she wasn't robbed.

Prosecutors still have six months to persuade Brown to testify so they can file an indictment. Anthony has to return to court on August 9th.

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