in march 2014, brown was arrested in memphis, tennessee, and charged with five counts of contempt of court and getting "verbally abusive" during a child support case overseen by magistrate harold horne. brown, who retains his law license, was reviewing a child support matter as a favor to an acquaintance. according to press accounts, brown became combative and irate after horne refused to discuss details of the case that were not on the schedule. brown was sentenced to five days in jail, but was later released on his own recognizance. brown surrendered to the shelby county sheriff on august 27, 2015 to serve his five-day sentence at the shelby county corrections facility in memphis. he was released from the shelby county corrections facility the morning of september 1, 2015.