US rap star Foxy Brown has pleaded guilty to violating the terms of her probation by visiting Florida recently without requesting permission from her probation officer to leave New York. The hip-hopper's unauthorised trip to the Sunshine State was revealed, as previously reported, when she was arrested there on 15 Feb after getting into a spat with a beauty shop owner. Brown, real name Inga Marchand is, of course, on probation due to that incident back in August 2004 when she assaulted two Manhattan nail salon employees during a dispute over the cost of a manicure.
In court yesterday, probation officials asked that the court end Marchand's period of probation and send her to prison instead. Judge Melissa Jackson has given her another chance, however, and is letting her continue on with the current terms of her plea deal. She warned, however, that if Brown violates probation again, she may end up serving a year behind bars.
Brown will still face charges of battery and resisting arrest whilst down in Florida. As previously reported, she held a press conference earlier this week denying those charges, and saying "The only crime I am guilty of committing is being a young black female celebrity in Broward County".