Travis Scott was arrested early on Thursday morning in Miami Beach and charged with trespassing on property and disorderly intoxication, authorities said.
The 33-year-old rapper, singer, songwriter and producer was charged under his real name, Jacques Bermon Webster II, and posted bond of $500 and $150 for the two charges. He was booked into the Turner Guilford Knight correctional center at about 4.35am and was expected to be released from jail later in the morning.
According to a Miami Beach police arrest affidavit, Scott was involved in “a disturbance on a yacht” which involved people fighting.
Officers had found Scott “standing by the dock and yelling at the vessel occupants” and asked Scott to sit down. But he repeatedly stood back up and disregarded their orders.
Sergeant Lemus of Miami Beach police warned Scott to leave the dock or face arrest. “Throughout the long walk from the vessel to the boardwalk, the defendant walked backwards yelling obscenities to the occupants of the vessel,” the affidavit reads.
Scott left the dock but returned five minutes later and “began yelling once again, becoming erratic, disturbing the peace of the occupants of the marina and nearby residential buildings causing a public disturbance”.
Asked if he had been drinking alcohol, Scott is reported as saying “it’s Miami” and said he had.
Throughout his career, Scott has had four No 1 hits and more than 100 songs make the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. He shares two children with influencer, business woman and Kardashian-clan member Kylie Jenner.
Scott has been nominated for 10 Grammy awards and sold upwards of 49m certified records using a “blend between traditional hip-hop and lo-fi”.
A crowd surge at a November 2021 Astroworld concert in his home town of Houston, Texas, killed 10 people and injured 300, making it among the deadliest tragedies in US pop history. Some lawsuits after the event claimed Scott himself was negligent and stood to gain from continuing the concert despite the crowd control problems.
Scott has denied responsibility for the tragedy. All but one of the wrongful death lawsuits have been settled.
Scott’s arrest for intoxication makes him the second pop star to be booked on similar charges in as many days after Justin Timberlake was charged with drunk-driving on Tuesday in the Long Island, New York, town of Sag Harbor. He pleaded not guilty and was released without bail.
Sag Harbor village police said the singer, 43, had been stopped in his BMW after rolling through a stop sign and had bloodshot and glassy eyes, carried a strong odor of alcohol on his breath, exhibited slowed speech and was unsteady on his feet.
The police report said Timberlake, 43, “performed poorly on all standardized field sobriety tests”. He reportedly told the arresting officer: “I had one martini and I followed my friends home.”
