Former NFL star Antonio Brown is back in the United States to face a second-degree attempted murder charge tied to a May 16 shooting outside a celebrity boxing event in Miami.

Miami police said Brown, 37, was taken into custody in Dubai by U.S. Marshals and flown to Essex County, N.J., where he's being held while authorities arrange his return to Florida. It wasn't immediately clear why he was routed through New Jersey or how long he'd been abroad, though Brown has posted to social media from Dubai in recent months.

An arrest warrant, issued in June, alleges Brown grabbed a handgun from a security staffer after a post-fight melee and fired twice at a man he'd brawled with earlier, identified in records as Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu. Investigators said the victim reported a bullet grazed

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