COLLEYVILLE, Texas -- Former Super Bowl MVP Larry Brown was arrested and charged with writing bad checks at Las Vegas casinos.

Brown, a 32-year-old former cornerback for the Dallas Cowboys, was released from jail Monday after agreeing to pay nearly $44,000. He was arrested Oct. 23 on outstanding warrants from Nevada during a traffic stop.

Dan Bowman, a Clark County attorney in Las Vegas, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that Brown made out 18 checks to casinos between December 2001 and March.

Brown told The Dallas Morning News he didn't really pass bad checks, and all the money has been paid.

"It sounds worse than it is,'' he told the Morning News. "I wasn't writing hot checks. When you get a line of credit at a hotel, and if you access that line and they don't collect, they file a hot check charge. But I didn't write hot checks.''

Under Nevada law, a count of insufficient funds by check is a D felony punishable by up to four years in jail and a $5,000 fine.

Brown will be allowed to enroll in Nevada's deferred prosecution program and, if successfully completed, the charges will be dropped, Clark County Deputy District Attorney Dan Ahlstrom said.

Brown intercepted two passes in the 1996 Super Bowl in which Dallas beat Pittsburgh 27-17. A 12th-round draft pick in 1991 from TCU, Brown spent six seasons with the Cowboys in the 1990s. He signed as a free agent with the Raiders, who released him after two disappointing seasons.

In 1995, Brown filed for Chapter 7 personal bankruptcy protection. Because football players get paid only during the regular season, Brown was earning no salary at the time. He listed $1 million in debts from the offseason, court papers show. In August, Brown filed for Chapter 13 protection, court documents show.