Chris Brown is facing criminal charges and possible jail time over a pet monkey.

Concluding month, the "Fine China" singer bought the capuchin monkey for his daughter Royalty. He took some oestrus from fauna rights group when he posted a video of the toddler playing with the monkey and now there could be some legal troubles on the mode. Some folks think that the beast is a danger to the 3-year-quondam girl and really should exist left in the wild. Chris Dark-brown shot back maxim the brute is perfectly safe and everyone should simply take a arctic pill.

Some people took the effect a step further and notified the California Dept. of Fish and Wild fauna about Chris Dark-brown harboring the animal. An investigation is now underway to see if he interruption any laws. TMZ reported that Breezy never got a proper let for the exotic pet. The singer has since surrendered the monkey to the Wild animals department afterward they got a search warrant to search his habitation. That's a expert movement given what happened the last time that government converged on his home.

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The case has already been referred to the L.A. City Attorney function and a misdemeanor charge could exist coming Chris Brown's way. If he is charged with harboring a restricted species without a permit, CB could face 6 months in jail and fined thousands of dollars. "As I leave my office in Downtown L.A. and walk past people sleeping on the street on my style to defend people charged by the City Attorney with selling medical marijuana … now spending taxpayer money on investigating monkey business, this completes the circle on his absurdity," Chris Brown attorney Marker Geragos said.

Brown named the monkey Fiji and says he got the animal as a pet for his girl ahead of her 4th birthday. Here is a video of Royalty playing with the monkey. The prune was posted by Breezy back in December terminal twelvemonth.