With his once bright career in seeming free-fall, Smollett is now expected to surrender for arrest and booking, police said. He was charged with filing a false police report, a Class 4 felony which carries a maximum penalty of three years imprisonment and a $25,000 fine. She said that Smollett was lying, and that she didn't know how his conscience could let him sleep at night. The day after the attack, they fled to NigeriaThey flew there on January 29 hours after Smollett reported the attack and a day after they were filmed in the store. In 2007, when he was pulled over for a DUI, Smollett told the officers that he was his younger brother Jake.

Source: Daily Mail February 20, 2019 22:05 UTC