A month after Miami arrest warrant, Antonio Brown is still in Dubai. Police won't talk.

Grethel Aguila and Charles Rabin, Miami Herald on Jul 11, 2025

Published in Football

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MIAMI — A month after being charged with attempted murder, former NFL star Antonio Brown has posted videos on social media flaunting his lavish lifestyle abroad — riding around in expensive cars and sauntering on a yacht overlooking Dubai’s skyscrapers.

It’s almost as if Brown, 37, were taunting police. But Miami Police will not say whether they consider Brown on the run — or if they’re working to bring him back to the U.S. to face trial.

A Miami-Dade judge signed off on Brown’s arrest warrant a month ago. But police don’t appear to be looking for him and refuse to discuss the case. There’s also no record or court date for Brown in the database of Miami-Dade circuit court records.

In a video uploaded to X on Thursday, Brown is seen celebrating his birthday in a red Ferrari 812 GTS and hanging out with his young sons on the water. In another, he is smiling at the camera as he films the sun setting on the Dubai skyline.

Meanwhile, Miami Police remain tight-lipped about its efforts — and deadlines — to get Brown to return.

“The process of determining fugitive status and initiating retrieval efforts depends on various factors, including the nature of the charges, jurisdictional protocols, and international cooperation,” police told the Miami Herald. “We cannot provide timelines as every case differs.”

Attorney Mauricio Padilla, who practices criminal law in South Florida and Puerto Rico, said it’s unusual for someone with such a serious charge to remain abroad a month after a judge signed an arrest warrant.

“They have given him a lot of leeway,” Padilla said. “Usually, celebrity or not, they want you here.”

Brown is accused of shooting at Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu, a 41-year-old man who designs and sells jewelry, after a dispute escalated on May 16 outside a Miami boxing event hosted by social media influencer Adin Ross. After the shooting, Brown said on social media that he was attacked by people trying to steal his jewelry.

Brown, who grew up in South Florida, falsely accused Nantambu of stealing $3 million in jewelry from him, according to a lawsuit filed by Nantambu. The jewelry designer spent a month in jail in the United Arab Emirates, documents show, before proving that Brown lied.

People accused of crimes usually negotiate with authorities to surrender upon their return. Brown had an attorney early on who secured him a $10,000 bond, including house arrest. As of Thursday, it’s unclear if Brown was being represented by an attorney. Another unknown: whether prosecutors will continue to honor the bond agreement in place.

Brown could be detained by the FBI or U.S. Marshals if Miami Police or the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office request that the federal agencies issue a warrant for Brown’s return, said Jeffrey Sloman, a Miami criminal defense attorney who served briefly as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. This is usually accomplished through a federal charge brought forward if a person is avoiding prosecution.

If a person remains a fugitive, they may not be granted bond to get out of jail, or a judge could be more harsh in their confinement, Sloman said.

The attorney said to look no further than his client Ohad Fisherman, who was on his honeymoon in Japan but returned quickly to address the criminal charge against him. Fisherman — who was entangled in one of the cases brought by the state against the Alexander brothers — had a sex crime charge against him dropped on Monday by state prosecutors.

“It’s in [Brown’s] best interest to come back immediately, so hopefully the judge would give him a reasonable bond so he can fight the charges out of jail,” Sloman said. “It’s very difficult to fight a case in jail. If Mr. Brown continues to avoid prosecution, eventually he will travel somewhere or to some place and he will be arrested.”

Padilla told the Herald police likely believe that Brown will return to South Florida because he has property and children in the area. Formally extraditing Brown, he said, would be costly.

“It’s not easy for the FBI to be dragging people from the Middle East,” Padilla said. “There’ll be a point that if this continues, it could manifest into something larger.”

Brown should contact an attorney to turn himself in, Padilla said, because a judge could factor in the amount of time he was abroad after the warrant was signed when deciding his bond.

“This is a serious crime. This isn’t going to go away,” Padilla said. “... He’s going to have to face these charges.”