MIAMI – Rapper Travis Scott was arrested Thursday in Miami Beach and charged with disorderly intoxication and trespassing.
The “Goosebumps” singer, whose first name is Jacques Webster, was taken into custody at the Miami Beach Marina just before 2 a.m., according to police.
Officers were called to the marina following a disturbance on one of the yachts. When they arrived, Scott was standing at the dock yelling at the people on the ship.
When officers asked him to sit down, Scott did so briefly and then stood back up. He then “began to continuously stand up, without regard to the officer’s commands,” according to the arrest form.
The officers noticed the odor of alcohol on Scott’s breath.
According to police, the person on the yacht who called them said he didn’t want to press charges but just wanted Scott off his boat. Scott was then told to leave or he would be arrested.
“During the long walk from the ship to the boardwalk, the defendant walked backwards and shouted obscenities at the ship’s occupants,” the report said.
Scott then got into a waiting car and left. About five minutes later, police said he returned and began walking toward the yacht.
Scott reportedly ignored officers’ commands to stop. When one of the officers stopped him, Scott acted erratically and began yelling again “disrupting the peace of residents of the marina and nearby residential buildings,” the report said.
He was taken into custody and charged. He has since left prison.
This isn’t the 10-time Grammy nominee’s first run-in with the law. He is facing civil lawsuits after 10 people were killed and dozens injured Astroworld Festival 2021 in Houston. The mass casualty incident occurred during Scott’s show on November 6, 2021, when a crowd began to “press” toward the front of the stage, “and that caused some panic and it started to cause some injuries,” according to Fire Chief Samuel Peña from Houston. said the day after the tragedy.
According to researchers, all ten deaths occurred due to overcrowding and compaction within one area.
No charges were filed against Scott after a grand jury declined to indict him and five other people on criminal charges related to the deadly concert.
