Tekashi69 Charged with Assaulting a Cop ... After Traffic Arrest
5/22/2018 6:38 AM PDT
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Tekashi69[1] was charged with assaulting a police officer this week in New York after a traffic violation quickly escalated ... TMZ has learned.
Law enforcement sources tell us Tekashi was approached by an officer in Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn Sunday while his SUV was illegally parked in front of a fire hydrant and, when asked to produce a license ... the cop found it was suspended.
Tekashi was taken in to a Brooklyn precinct to be given a desk appearance ticket, but police soon learned there was an open warrant for his arrest[2] in Texas. We're told that's when they cuffed him and tried taking him into custody ... but not before he allegedly got grabby.
Cops say Tekashi squeezed a lieutenant's hand while being apprehended, squeezing it so hard apparently that it caused swelling. He was booked for assaulting a police officer -- a felony -- and unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.
He was arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court and released on $25k bail.
The New York Post[3] broke the story of Tekashi's arrest.
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