<p class="title">Singer Chris Brown was arrested for battery following a concert in Florida, authorities said Friday, the troubled star's latest brush with the law.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Police seized the R&B star shortly after he left the stage Thursday night in West Palm Beach. He was booked on a charge of felony battery and released after he paid a $2,000 bond, the sheriff's office said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Palm Beach County sheriff's office said that Brown was arrested on a warrant from Tampa but did not give specifics.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The celebrity news site TMZ said the warrant was related to an incident last year when Brown punched an in-house photographer during a paid appearance at a nightclub.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The singer was due to return to Tampa on Friday for a concert as part of an ongoing tour.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Brown, 29, has a long history of violence. In May, a Los Angeles woman said she was lured to the singer's house and repeatedly raped by him and a rapper.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Prominent lawyer Gloria Allred called it "one of the most horrific cases involving alleged sexual assault that I have ever seen."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Most notoriously, Brown in 2009 was convicted of beating fellow singer Rihanna, who was then his girlfriend and was forced to miss the Grammy Awards due to her injuries.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In 2016, he was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon following a standoff with Los Angeles police, after a woman said he threatened her at his home.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He also pleaded guilty to assaulting a fan in Washington in 2014 and was accused of violence by a woman in Las Vegas.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Brown was discovered by record label scouts when he was a boy working at his father's gas station in Virginia. First identified as a rapper, he quickly found success with his rich singing voice but he has been in the news more often in recent years for his legal troubles.</p>
<p class="title">Singer Chris Brown was arrested for battery following a concert in Florida, authorities said Friday, the troubled star's latest brush with the law.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Police seized the R&B star shortly after he left the stage Thursday night in West Palm Beach. He was booked on a charge of felony battery and released after he paid a $2,000 bond, the sheriff's office said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Palm Beach County sheriff's office said that Brown was arrested on a warrant from Tampa but did not give specifics.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The celebrity news site TMZ said the warrant was related to an incident last year when Brown punched an in-house photographer during a paid appearance at a nightclub.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The singer was due to return to Tampa on Friday for a concert as part of an ongoing tour.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Brown, 29, has a long history of violence. In May, a Los Angeles woman said she was lured to the singer's house and repeatedly raped by him and a rapper.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Prominent lawyer Gloria Allred called it "one of the most horrific cases involving alleged sexual assault that I have ever seen."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Most notoriously, Brown in 2009 was convicted of beating fellow singer Rihanna, who was then his girlfriend and was forced to miss the Grammy Awards due to her injuries.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In 2016, he was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon following a standoff with Los Angeles police, after a woman said he threatened her at his home.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He also pleaded guilty to assaulting a fan in Washington in 2014 and was accused of violence by a woman in Las Vegas.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Brown was discovered by record label scouts when he was a boy working at his father's gas station in Virginia. First identified as a rapper, he quickly found success with his rich singing voice but he has been in the news more often in recent years for his legal troubles.</p>