Brown’s criminal record starts in 2011, but most of those early charges — including speeding, communicating threats, and injury to property — were dismissed by the former and current Mecklenburg district attorneys Andrew Murray and Spencer Merriweather, respectively. In April 2014,
Brown pleaded guilty to two 2013 charges of felony larceny and breaking and entering. Online court records are barren of details on these cases. A judge (online court records don’t specify who) suspended his sentence of five to 15 months in prison.
Instead, the judge ordered he serve two years probation. our months into his probation, Brown robbed a man in an apartment complex in south Charlotte. According to court documents, Brown paced the complex for an hour before approaching a man and
brandishing a handgun on Aug. 21, 2014. He “demanded the victim’s phone and money” and left in a 2001 Dodge Caravan with the man’s Samsung Galaxy Note, $450 and a $100 Lempira Honduras currency note. The man called police to the apartment at the intersection of East Arrowwood Road and South Boulevard. Police found Brown’s car at an apartment owned by his mother. He “was cooperative with officers at first and allowed officers to go inside,” according to court documents. Then, as officers found the stolen items, he “grew irate and asked [officers] to leave.” Officers arrested him that same day. Brown pleaded guilty to robbery with a dangerous weapon in February 2015 and was sentenced to a
minimum of six years and one month and a maximum of eight years and four months in prison.
He served five years and seven months before being released from Central Prison in September 2020. Then he spent one year on parole. Decarlos Brown criminal history
Almost exactly a year later, in September 2022, he was again arrested on charges of assault on a female and injury to property, according to jail records. Mecklenburg County online records on the state’s eCourts system do not show any corresponding case files related to this arrest. A year and a half later, in April 2024, Brown was arrested for misusing 911, according to jail records. He posted a $500 secured bond and was charged with the same offense two weeks later, in early May 2024. And again in January. The April and May arrests do not have any corresponding court files, but the January arrest does. Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes released Brown on Jan. 19, the same day he was arrested, on a written promise to appear. On Jan. 21, Judge Fritz Mercer Jr., assigned him a public defender.
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