Rapper Mystikal, whose full name is Michael Tyler, was arrested and charged with first-degree rape on Sunday after an alleged assault the night before, according to a release from the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana.
The 51-year-old musician was also charged with domestic abuse battery, strangulation, false imprisonment, simple robbery and simple criminal damage to property.
Authorities responded to a local hospital in reference to a sexual assault reported on Saturday, July 30, at 11:58 p.m. and interviewed a victim who "sustained minor injuries during the attack." Rapper Mystikal was arrested and charged with first-degree rape on Sunday.
He was pictured on stage in 2021. ( Stephen J. Cohen) Tyler was "identified as a suspect" and was booked into the Ascension Parish Jail on Sunday at 12:50 p.m.
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