Flavor Flav Arrested in Las Vegas for Assault with a Deadly Weapon, Fiancee and Teenage Son Involved? [DETAILS]

Public Enemy's Flavor Flav was arrested in Las Vegas early Wednesday morning, after the 53-year-old hip-hopper allegedly assaulted someone in his house with a deadly weapon, TMZ reports. Apparently Flava Flav (real name, William Drayton Jr.) got into a heated argument that turned physical with a teenager and his fiancée Liz. Flav's girlfriend has a teenage son named Gibran, but reports did not clarify if this was the young man assaulted.

Law enforcement tells TMZ that the rapper-turned-reality star was arrested at approximately 3 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 17 and booked on two charges - felony assault with a deadly weapon and misdemeanor domestic violence (battery). The musician who coined the popular phrase "Yeah boy!" allegedly got into an argument with the two other individuals, threatening one person with a knife and physically battering the other. It remains unclear which person he threatened, and which he physically attacked. Flav lives in a gated Vegas community with fiancee Liz, stepson Gibran, and son Karma.

Flav was arrested around 3 a.m. and booked on two charges -- felony assault with a deadly weapon and misdemeanor domestic violence (battery). His bail is set at $23,000.

This is not Flav's first run-in with the law, he had been in and out of jail many times as a teenager for robbery and burglary. In 1991 the VH1 star plead guilty to assaulting his then-girlfriend Karen Ross - he served 30 days in jail and lost custody of his children. Flav was imprisoned again in 1993 after being charged with attempted murder after shooting at his neighbor. After gathering even more domestic violence, cocaine, and marijuana charges, his family performed an intervention and Flav checked into the Betty Ford Center for an addiction to crack cocaine. Although he attempted treatment, he returned to jail in 2002 for driving with a suspended license. In May 2011, Flav was arrested on four outstanding misdemeanor warrants for various driving offenses.

Mstarz will continue to update the story as more information becomes available.