The second of two charges against hip-hop star Travis Scott stemming from his June arrest in Miami has been dropped and he will no longer face trial over the incident.
The 33-year-old “Sicko Mode” rapper, whose legal name is Jacques Bermon Webster, had been charged with trespassing and disorderly drunkenness and spent the night in a Miami jail after being arrested at the Miami Beach Marina. On Friday, TMZ reported that the trespassing charge would be dropped.
Representatives for Scott and the Miami-Dade state attorney did not immediately respond Friday to The Times' requests for comment.
Earlier this month, the state dropped the drunk and disorderly conduct charge against Scott. His trespassing trial was scheduled for Sept. 10.
“After filing the motion to dismiss and the state realizing there was no way to sustain the charge, they decided to dismiss the case in its entirety,” Scott’s attorney Bradford Cohen said in a statement to TMZ. “While this is not a serious charge and should not have been filed, we are pleased with the outcome.”
In the caption of an Instagram post on Friday, the attorney wrote the following statement: “Haha not that I have to brag about getting some misdemeanors dismissed but… the state refused to dismiss them, we filed and argued a motion to dismiss to the point where the state just gave up and dismissed it right before the court was going to dismiss it anyway.”
“This could have all been avoided if the Miami Dade State Attorney’s Office had looked at the evidence with an unbiased eye. They went so far as to put up no-trespassing signs after the fact… Luckily, we took pictures a few hours after the arrest that showed no signs,” Cohen said.
While the Miami case was pending, the “Highest in the Room” rapper, who shares two children with reality star Kylie Jenner, was arrested in Paris earlier this month on suspicion of involvement in an altercation at the George V hotel.
A hotel security guard intervened in an altercation between him and his bodyguard, police said in a statement at the time, resulting in law enforcement intervention.
The 10-time Grammy-nominated rapper, best known for his “Astroworld” album and last year’s “Utopia,” was in the French capital for several days for the Paris Olympics and had been “hounded and stalked” by paparazzi during that time, according to a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to speak publicly. The rapper had been harassed at his hotel on the day of his arrest and received no help, leading to the fight, the person said.
Scott was released from police custody without charge a day later, the Paris prosecutor’s office told the Associated Press, and “the police custody order for Travis Scott has been lifted and all proceedings (against him) have been terminated because the incident was minor.”
