Empire actor Jussie Smollett has been taken into custody on charges of disorderly conduct for allegedly filing a false police report about being attacked on the street, according to Chicago police.
In a tweet early Thursday, the chief communications officer for the Chicago Police Department, Anthony Guglielmi, said that Smollett “is under arrest and in custody of detectives.” The actor and musician now faces felony criminal charges from the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, which has accused him of “Disorderly Conduct / Filing a False Police Report.”