Trey Songz pleads guilty to lesser counts, apologizes
The singer accused of punching a police sergeant after a concert in Detroit pleaded guilty to two reduced counts of disturbing the peace Friday and apologized. Trey Songz, whose real name is Tremaine Neverson, will serve 18months of non-reporting probation and undergo a drug and substance abuse screening and anger management classes as part of the sentence agreement reached in the case. He won’t serve any jail time.
“I’d just like to give my apologies to the city of Detroit,” Neverson said during the hearing. “I love Detroit.” He said he has been coming to the city for more than 12 years, and it wasn’t his intention to disturb the peace. The R&B artist appeared before Wayne County Circuit Judge Lawrence Talon on Friday morning in the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice in Detroit and was sentenced on the two misdemeanors. In December, police went to the singer’s dressing room following mayhem that happened when the performer was told his show at Joe Louis Arena was over and he had to leave the stage. Police said Neverson, 32, threw things and a cameraman was hit and injured with a microphone stand. When police went to arrest him, Neverson punched a police sergeant in the head, officials said. He was initially charged with a felony count of assaulting a police officer causing injury, which is punishable by up to four years in prison, and a misdemeanor count of aggravated assault, which carries a maximum penalty of one year in jail, officials said.
One of his attorneys, Gabi Silver, told the court that Neverson has no prior criminal history, accepted responsibility for his role that night and is a charitable man.
She said what happened “appears to be an isolated incident.”