Former rap star Flavor Flav was arrested Wednesday in Las Vegas, Nevada, and charged with assault with a deadly weapon and battery in a case involving his fiancee of eight years, police said. Police were called to their house on the city's south side at 3:30 a.m., according to a domestic battery report issued by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, which offers the following account of events: Flav, whose real name is William J. Drayton, 53, was arguing with the woman, Elizabeth Trujillo, 39. The two had gotten into a "verbal altercation due to Drayton cheating on Trujillo," it said. The argument continued in the downstairs bedroom, where "Drayton became physical."
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Police say he got into an altercation with his fiancee, then threatened her son
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It is not clear whether the musician has a lawyer
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Flavor Flav was a member of the rap group "Public Enemy"
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