Chicago police have confirmed that Empire performed Jussie Smollett was formally accused by a stately jury. He now faces misdemeanour accusations for registering a fallacious police report and disorderly conduct.

Smollet turned himself into police early Thursday morning, and has a attachment hearing scheduled for 1:30 p.m. neighbourhood season. Inform: Police detailed the investigation that led to Smollett’s arrest during press conference on Thursday morning .

If Smollett is ultimately found guilty, he was able to face up to three years in prison. The performer is expected to appear in law on Thursday.

Smollett is accused of orchestrating his own attack with the support provided by Nigerian brothers and Empire extras Olabinjo and Abimbola Osundairo. The brothers are expected to testify before the grand jury.

Smollett initially told police that he was attacked by two men outside a Subway restaurant in Chicago during the early morning hours of January 29 th. The 36 -year-old actor, who is openly gay, described his assailants as lily-white humanities wearing ski disguises, who queried Smollett if he was “that f *** ot Empire n *****? ” before assaulting him with a tether and bleach. As they absconded the scene the men screeched, “This is MAGA country! ” according to Smollett.

In reality, the Osundairo brethren say they rehearsed the attack with Smollett in the working day prior. They told police that they scouted a localities where they reputed a camera would captivate the two attacks. During the actual criticize, one of the brothers deemed the rope and spouted bleach while the other wore a plain red hat and howled insults at Smollett, CBS Chicago reports. The Osundairo brothers say the plan was never to gravely disable Smollett and they described the contact obliged with his face as “weak.”

Police say the Osundairo friends purchased the rope discovered around Smollett’s neck at a equipment accumulate in Chicago, while they bought a red hat — in the vogue of a Trump MAGA hat — at a beautiful equip collect. Surveillance footage of the brothers acquiring some of these items was obtained by CBS Chicago, which you can see below. CBS Chicago was pointed out that Smollett told the brothers what to buy and spoke to them by telephone “countless” occasions.

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I tracked down surveillance of the Osundairo’s buying supplies before “attack”

Sources say Jussie Smollet told brothers what to buy.

Countless phone calls placed for this.

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The friends agreed to cooperate after police threatened to charge them with battery, according to Chicago’s FOX 32.

In a statement released over the weekend, Smollett’s solicitors said their patient “is angered and devastated by recent reports that the perpetrators are individuals he is familiar with.” The explanation continued, “He has now been further was well received by claims attributed to these alleged perpetrators that Jussie frisked a role in his own attempt. Good-for-nothing is significantly from the truth and anyone claiming otherwise is lying.”

Smollett’s lawyers went on to say one of the “purported suspects” is a personal teach that Smollett worked with and “it is impossible to believe this person could have played important roles in the criminal offences against Jussie or would falsely claim Jussie’s complicity.”

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