by
Lia Haberman
Dec 10, 2003, 9:30 AM PT
All is not well in the Houston-Brown household
this week after Bobby Brown allegedly banged
up his missus, Whitney Houston.
On Sunday, cops responded to a domestic
dispute call from the couple's home in
Alpharetta, a suburb of Atlanta, at the
Country Club of the South subdivision around
8:30 p.m. There, they found the R&B diva
with a cut lip and a bruised cheek.
Houston
told police Brown had slapped her face with
his right hand after an argument escalated out
of control. No word on the cause of the
dispute.
Before proceeding, officials say they want to
hear Brown's side of the story. If only they
could find the singer. By the time cops
arrived at the house on Sunday, Brown had
exercised his prerogative to hightail it out
of there and had taken off for California (or
at least that's where Houston said he was
headed).
Houston has yet to press charges, but because
the incident is under investigation as an
alleged act of domestic violence, officials
could file charges against Brown without
Houston's cooperation. "The report has
been filed and wheels of justice are in motion
and it depends on where the investigation
leads," Fulton County Police Department
spokesperson Kurtis Young told the
Atlanta-Journal Constitution.
A call Wednesday to Houston's spokesperson was
not returned.
The troubled twosome married in 1992 and have
been plagued with rumors of abuse and drug use
ever since.
In 2000, the onetime New Edition member served
26 days in a Florida jail from a
drunken-driving incident in that state. That
same year, Houston was busted for pot at
Hawaii's Keahole-Kona International Airport
but managed to board a plane and fly away
before police could arrest her. She later
pleaded no contest and the case was dismissed.
More recently, Brown received a two-year
probation and an eight-day jail term, after
pleading guilty in January to drunken-driving
charges that dated back to 1996. That bust
came about as a result of being tagged in
Atlanta last November for having a baggie of
pot, speeding and having no driver's license
and proof of insurance
Then in August, he was busted mid-meal at a
seafood restaurant in August for a probation
violation for which he was briefly jailed and
ordered anew to complete a stint in rehab.
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