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Flavor Flav Busted in Vegas for Threatening Future Stepson With Knife
Eccentric hip hop performer and frequent reality star Flavor Flav spent Wednesday morning in the pokey in Vegas after he was busted for allegedly threatening a teenager in his home with a knife.The teen is Flavor Flav's fiancee Liz Trujillo's son, reports TMZ. The incident reportedly involves Flav (nee William Drayton Jr.) getting into a physical fight with his fiancee and then threatening her son, Gibran, with a knife. Trujillo called 911, and Flav was arrested at around 3 a.m.
Flav was booked on two charges, "felony assault with a deadly weapon and misdemeanor domestic violence (battery)." He bailed out just before 11:30 this morning.
Recently Flav and Liz have been living in Las Vegas. Flav has six children from previously relationships, and one child, Karma, with his fiancee. The couple appeared on the show "Wife Swap," in which Liz traded homes temporarily with rocker Dee Snider's wife.
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