Flava Flav Pleads No Contest to Las Vegas Driving Under the Influence Charge

Flava Flav is pleading no contest to a driving under the influence charge stemming from an incident in Las Vegas. This past Monday (Feb. 8) Flav pleaded no contest to the charges against him, which was also the second plea in two weeks that involved charges in the state of Nevada.

Flava Flav, whose given name is William Jonathan Drayton Jr. is a 56-year-old rapper and television star who scored a notable hit with his show Flava of Love back in the mid-2000s. When police pulled Flav over this past May, the TV personality did admit to having some remaining marijuana residue in his system according to Billboard. Drayton lives in Las Vegas.

The other charge stemmed from a DUI involving marijuana when the television star was found asleep at the wheel parked on a side street this past August. His defense attorney, David Figler, helped Drayton plead no contest to the charges, although he was fined for the incident.

Las Vegas judge Suzan Baucum fined Drayton $685 per incident and also instructed him to attend DUI school as well as a victim impact panel in order to meet his plea requirements. The hype man was also caught speeding near the McCarran International Airport on May 21, which instigated the plea in Las Vegas.

Drayton seems to be plagued by charges of this nature and according to SPIN, was also heavily fined for speeding in Long Island in January of 2014. He paid a whopping fine of $3,600 in that case.

There were also some darker charges against the rapper and television star, when he had felony charges brought against him for threatening a second party (his girlfriend's teenage son) with a kitchen knife in a domestic dispute in October 2012. In that case, Drayton was instructed to complete a domestic violence course and ended up pleading guilty to misdemeanor battery charges.