Busta Rhymes has been arrested and charged with assault after an incident at this weekend's AmsterJam festival in New York. According to local reports, the arrest followed a fracas which allegedly came about after a festival-goer spat on the rapper's car. Specifics on the incident are unclear, but it seems that Rhymes tried to make a quick getaway after his AmsterJam set after being tipped off that the police were after him. However he was arrested at around 8pm local time on Saturday night.
He was questioned for several hours overnight and not just about the alleged assault. According to the New York Daily News police also took the opportunity to question Rhymes about the previously reported murder of his bodyguard Israel Ramirez during a Brooklyn video shoot back in February. The rapper has so far refused to cooperate with police investigating that crime.