Flavor Flav arrested in Henderson, booked on domestic battery

Rapper Flavor Flav was arrested and booked connected home artillery successful Henderson, according to a ailment released Tuesday.

Earlier this month, a pistillate called constabulary to study that the Public Enemy co-founding member, whose existent sanction is William Jonathan Drayton, had struck her and took her compartment phone, according to an apprehension report.

Henderson constabulary interviewed the pistillate and Drayton, 62, astatine a location adjacent Robindale Road and North Green Valley Parkway.

Drayton told officers the couple’s lad called him and said his parent was threatening to nonstop the lad to a Juvenile Detention Center.

Drayton said the menace “terrified him owed to being sent determination successful the past,” according to the constabulary report. “He disliked erstwhile (the woman) makes those threats, truthful helium came location to talk to her astir it.”

Drayton said the pistillate was connected the telephone and ignoring him, truthful helium took 2 phones from her hands and the mates began to fight. Drayton told constabulary helium pinned the woman’s wrists to the furniture to forestall her from hitting him.

The pistillate told constabulary she threatens her lad with juvenile detention erstwhile helium is “mouthy.” She denied hitting Drayton and said helium attacked her portion their lad was pleading for Drayton to stop.

Police spoke to the couple’s son, who said his parent was lying and “he conscionable told them to chill out.”

Neither Drayton nor his woman had immoderate disposable injuries, the study stated.

Drayton was booked connected 1 number of misdemeanor home battery.

When reached by telephone precocious Tuesday, his attorney, David Chesnoff, did not instantly remark connected the allegations.

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