Henderson Police Department

This Henderson Detention Center booking photograph shows entertainer Flavor Flav pursuing his apprehension Oct. 4, 2021, successful Henderson, Nev. Police and tribunal documents said Tuesday, Oct. 19 the 62-year-old erstwhile hip-hop and world TV star, whose ineligible sanction is William Jonathan Drayton Jr., faces a misdemeanor home artillery complaint stemming from a scuffle with his woman astatine home. Drayton's lawyers accidental they'll explicate his broadside of the communicative successful court. (Henderson Police Department via AP)

LAS VEGAS – Entertainer Flavor Flav volition combat a misdemeanor home artillery complaint stemming from a scuffle with his woman astatine location successful suburban Las Vegas, his attorneys said Tuesday.

The 62-year-old erstwhile rapper, hip-hop and world TV star, whose ineligible sanction is William Jonathan Drayton Jr., was arrested precocious Oct. 4 aft Henderson constabulary were called to a study of a home disturbance astatine a location successful the city’s Green Valley neighborhood, constabulary said.

He was accused of grabbing oregon poking the pistillate successful the look and wresting a telephone from her hand, according to a transgression ailment filed Tuesday successful Henderson Municipal Court.

Records amusement Drayton was freed from jailhouse Oct. 5 connected $3,000 enslaved with an Oct. 25 tribunal date.

The alleged unfortunate was identified successful tribunal and constabulary documents arsenic a idiosyncratic with whom Drayton has a dating narration and a insignificant kid successful common. Her sanction was redacted.

Their lad told constabulary helium stepped successful to halt the scuffle erstwhile his parents separated and his parent lunged toward Drayton, according to a constabulary report. Officers reported a tiny chopped connected the broadside of the woman's look “consistent with an altercation taking place.”

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Officer Katrina Farrell, a Henderson constabulary spokeswoman, said she had nary accusation astir whether the alleged unfortunate required aesculapian treatment.

“In alleged home unit cases, determination are often 2 sides to the communicative and we volition explicate our broadside successful the courtroom,” Drayton’s attorneys, David Chesnoff and Richard Schonfeld, said successful a statement. The apprehension was archetypal reported by personage website TMZ.

Flavor Flav's nationalist persona includes wearing a large timepiece connected a concatenation astir his neck. He was inducted with the radical Public Enemy into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame successful 2013. Public Enemy began successful the New York country successful 1986.

Drayton has a transgression past that includes arrests and convictions connected postulation infractions; a period successful jailhouse for assaulting his then-girlfriend successful 1991; and 3 months down bars for shooting astatine a neighbour successful New York successful 1993.

An October 2012 incidental led to his apprehension connected respective felony charges aft helium was accused of wielding knives, chasing and threatening his then-fiancee’s 17-year-old lad astatine their location successful Las Vegas.

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That lawsuit was closed successful 2014, aft Drayton pleaded blameworthy to reduced charges of misdemeanor attempted battery, served probation and completed a required home unit counseling course.

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