She reportedly lied to pageant officials and said the person in the photos wasn’t her.Ĭurran also failed to show up for community functions, TMZ reported. TMZ reported that she was stripped of her title because nude photos purportedly of her surfaced.
“There was some instances that occurred during the pageant and they were investigated and due to our investigation, we considered it would be in the best interest for the organization and the other contestants that we have her dethroned.”Ĭurran “has been asked numerous times” to return the crown and sash, which she has refused to do, according to the pageant organization. “She is not the current title holder,” said Joshua James, a spokesman for the Miss California Regional pageant. The bag contained evidence related to the case, the source said.ĭetails area also beginning to emerge about Curran, who was crowned Miss California Regional 2016 on April 1, but lost her title soon after, on July 5. A law enforcement source confirmed that officers found a duffel bag that had apparently been tossed from a window. It’s unclear what police recovered from the property. “The prosecution must find other witnesses, surveillance footage, the firearm in question, to corroborate what happened to ever be able to prove this case in front of a jury.” “At the end of the day it is a he-said she-said scenario,” said Dmitry Gorin, a defense attorney and a former sex crimes prosecutor in Los Angeles.
The results of the search, as well as other witness testimony, will weigh heavily in the prosecution’s decision to charge Brown, experts say. It is common for prosecutors to announce a decision on whether to file charges close to the date of arraignment.
Brown is scheduled to appear in court for arraignment on Sept. Mark Geragos, Brown’s longtime attorney, told The Times that during the search of the home, he was with the singer, who denies any wrongdoing. “We’re getting the cooperation of everyone that came out,” said Lt. and at least half a dozen people exited the home, a few of them holding their hands behind their heads as police patted them down. dealing with y’all.”ĭetectives eventually entered the residence shortly before 1 p.m. When you get the warrant or whatever you need to do, you’re going to walk right up in here and you’re going to see nothing, you idiots,” he said in one video, occasionally taking a drag of a cigarette. In the videos, he said he woke up to helicopters overhead and officers at his gate, and maintained that he was not guilty of the accusations. As detectives waited for the warrant, Brown shared videos on his Instagram account, praising his own talents as both a performer and father, and criticizing the media for portraying him as a villain. When officers arrived, they were instructed to obtain a search warrant, police sources said. The man ran to a Jeep to give chase, but Curran and her friend escaped to a neighbor’s property and hid under an SUV when the Jeep drove by, she said. One of Brown’s associates walked over with the phone but said he’d return it only if she signed a nondisclosure agreement, she said.Ĭurran said she refused, snatched her phone from the man’s hand and ran away. Curran said she fled outside with a friend, but they were forced to wait by the home’s gate until Brown’s associates retrieved her phone - which she had to hand over as a condition of entering the residence, she said.