Not a stranger to run-ins with the law!
Mystikal, a well known New Orleans-based rapper, has been charged with sexual assault for the third time.
Mystikal, 51, was arrested over the weekend after Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office responded to a nearby hospital’s report of a sexual assault survivor at around midnight the night before.
Police reported the woman suffered minor injuries in the attack. Investigators stated, “Mystikal was identified as the suspect in the attack. He is now facing charges of firs-degree rape, simple robbery, domestic abuse battery, strangulation, false imprisonment and simple criminal damage to property. However, the investigation still remains ongoing.”
“There is a bail hearing at 3 tomorrow. We expect he will be released later in the week. Once he is we will begin our investigation of the allegations. There has been little opportunity to discuss them in detail thus far,” his attorney, Roy Maughan said about his client.
Mystikal (born Michael Lawrence Tyler) previously pleaded guilty to sexual battery and extortion in a 2003 deal after he was charged with aggravated rape. He was accused of coercing his hairstylist into engaging in sex acts with himself and two bodyguards.
He was later sentenced to six years in federal prison. He was then released in 2010 and forced to register as a sex offender in the state of Louisiana.
Mystikal was also indicted in 2017 on separate rape and kidnapping charges and spent 18 months in jail before being released on a $3 million bond. The charges against him were dropped after a second grand jury declined to bring an indictment.
