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Flavor Flav Charged With Assaulting Fiance and Her Son

Rapper reportedly threatened 17-year-old with knife

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October 17, 2012 1:35 PM ET
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Flavor Flav was arrested this morning in Las Vegas and booked on assault with a deadly weapon and misdemeanor domestic violence charges, KTNV reports. Police received a call at 3:30 a.m. local time from a woman who said her fiancé was threatening a 17-year-old at their residence, and that the man had also assaulted her. Police said they later learned the Public Enemy rapper, born William Drayton Jr., had threatened the teenager with a knife.

Flavor Flav is set to appear in court tomorrow.

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