Busta Rhymes has been arrested on a drink driving charge, according to the New York police. Officers stopped Rhymes in the early hours of the morning because the sport utility vehicle he was driving had overly tinted windows, Sgt Mike Wysokowski said. He said officers then smelled alcohol on the rapper's breath. Rhymes, 34, was taken into custody on a charge of driving while impaired, Wysokowski said. An arraignment was expected later. A lawyer for Rhymes, Scott Leemon, declined to comment, saying he would address the charges in court. A telephone message left at the New York office of Rhymes' manager, Violator Management, was not immediately returned.
Rhymes, whose real name is Trevor Smith, has had several law enforcement run-ins since last year. He is tentatively scheduled to go to trial on Tuesday on two assault charges. In one of those cases, prosecutors have accused him of beating and kicking his former driver, Edward Hatchett, 39, during a pay dispute outside Rhymes' lower Manhattan office. In the other case, Rhymes is charged with assaulting a fan after a performance at the AmsterJam Music Festival. While Rhymes was awaiting trial on those charges, he was jailed briefly in February after police said they stopped him for running a red light and discovered he was driving with a suspended licence. In November, Rhymes was issued a ticket after police said they saw him talking on his mobile phone while he was driving past a police station. Police also have sought to question the rapper as a potential witness in the February 2006 shooting death of his bodyguard, Israel Ramirez.
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