Ex-Football Star Arrested on Threat Charge

Former professional football star Jim Brown, who has been arrested numerous times on suspicion of battering women, was booked for allegedly making a terrorist threat against his wife, police said Wednesday.

Brown, 63, was arrested at his Hollywood home after officers responded to a domestic violence call and interviewed his wife, Monique Brown, 25, a police spokesman said.

Brown, an actor and activist, was booked at the Hollywood division station, where he immediately posted bail set at $50,000, police said.

In 1986, Brown was booked on suspicion of felony battery after a woman told officers he had beaten her. The district attorney did not pursue the case when the woman refused to cooperate.

The previous year, charges of rape and assault with a deadly weapon were dropped because of what prosecutors called inconsistencies in the testimony of the complaining witness.

In 1978, Brown was jailed briefly and fined $500 for beating up a golf partner.

In 1971, misdemeanor charges of battery and disturbing the peace were filed against Brown, but were dropped after the two young women who made the allegations failed to testify at his trial.

Brown was arrested in 1968 and accused of assault with intent to murder when his girlfriend was found semiconscious outside his apartment. The charge was dropped when she said she had fallen.

Brown has been active in aiding inner-city gang members through Amer-I-Can, an organization he founded in 1989.