Travis Scott is arrested in Miami on trespassing and disorderly intoxication expenses

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Rapper Travis Scott was arrested and booked at a Miami-Dade County jail after being accused of trespassing and disorderly intoxication expenses.

Jacques Webster, aka Scott, was arrested at 1:44 am Thursday on the Miami Seashore Marina after he was concerned in a dispute with the crew onboard a constitution boat, in response to a police affidavit.

Miami Seashore Cops responded to a “disturbance” on a yacht. The 33-year-old rapper was “standing by the dock yelling” at folks aboard the vessel and had a “sturdy scent of alcohol” on his breath. Officers requested Scott to go away. He left — earlier than coming again and interesting in a dispute with the crew, prompting him to as soon as once more be requested to go away. When he refused, the rapper was arrested.

No particulars had been launched on what the dispute was about.

After he was taken into custody, Scott admitted that he had been ingesting and mentioned, “It’s Miami,”he mentioned, in response to the affidavit.

There was no bodily altercation throughout the dispute, sources conversant in the incident informed The Unbiased.

The ten-time Grammy nominee was booked at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Heart at 4.30am Thursday, reserving data say.

He had submitted the $650 bond as of 9am. Sources mentioned he has already returned house, including there there will likely be not be any additional motion taken, because it was a minor incident just like receiving a ticket.

On Thursday morning, the rapper wrote a easy message on X: “Lol.”

The Unbiased has emailed representatives for the rapper and the police division for remark.

The singer-songwriter shares two youngsters with Kylie Jenner. The couple cut up in January 2023.

Subsequent week, Scott is scheduled to carry out in Arnhem, Netherlands, a cease in his Circus Maximus tour.

In 2021, Travis Scott made headlines for his efficiency on the two-day Astroworld pageant, when a “crowd surge” left ten folks useless. A trial date for the ultimate wrongful dying civil associated to the tragedy has been set for September.

The gang surge occurred when folks pushed towards the entrance of the stage. Those that died suffered compression asphyxia, which specialists say, is like being crushed by a automotive, in response to the Related Press.

The victims killed within the crowd surge ranged in age from 9 to 27 years previous. It was the very best variety of deaths at a live performance because the 2003 hearth at a Rhode Island nightclub killed 100.

There have been greater than 300 injured within the Astroworld incident.

Final 12 months, the rapper recounted the tragedy to GQ: “I all the time give it some thought. These followers had been like my household. , I like my followers to the utmost.”