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 Former B2K member, J-Boog, was released from police custody late Tuesday (January 5), after being arrested on a domestic violence charge a day eariler.
According to reports, no charges were filed.
On Monday, the singer (real name: Jarell Damonte Houston) was arrested at his Los Angeles home, and hit with a "corporal punishment on a spouse" charge, said TMZ.
At press time, it was unclear who the victim was, and details surrounding the incident were sparse.
On Tuesday, J-Boog's ex-B2K bandmate Lil Fizz, and the COO of his Popular Records label, Damuer Leffridge, addressed the recent incident with Vibe, calling media reports a "cold twist" of what really happened.
"Me and Boog are like four or five streets apart. We're like the only black dudes in the neighborhood, amongst a lot of wealthy Caucasian people. And they don't want to hear all that loud music and stuff," said Leffridge. "Jarell and them, they keep up a lot of noise -- this just the truth. And when him and her were screaming on each other on a Sunday afternoon, talking crazy, one of the neighbors decided to call the police.
"The reality is, the police came and they couldn't get in the security gate," he continued. "So they chose to jump the gate. Boog doesn't always pay attention to the buzzer, so he doesn't know when people are outside sometimes. So police was outside for awhile trying to get his attention. The police said that if [Boog and his girlfriend] hadn't been so hostile, they would have let them stayed, but because they were both screaming they chose to break them up and take him instead of taking her."
Fizz backed Leffridge's recap, further explaining that Boog's girlfriend called him immediately after the arrest, panicked, but said no physical violence took place.
"His girl called me after the incident happened, and she didn't know what to do," Fizz told Vibe. "She didn't even know where the phone call to the police came from. So she was like, 'Can you get over here ASAP? They just took him, they just arrested him, we just had an argument. I don't know what happened. They trying to say it was domestic violence, but he didn't put any hands on me or anything.' "
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