Casanova has been arrested and charged with second-degree robbery, according to reports by PIX11 News and the New York Daily News.
The 31-year-old rapper, whose real name is Caswell Senior, turned himself in to police on Wednesday (August 15) after a warrant for his arrest was issued last week. Casanova was wanted in connection to an alleged assault of a woman at a New York City diner on August 5.
Police say Casanova, another man and a woman attacked the victim for recording a video on her phone. Casanova is accused of taking the victim’s phone while the other male accomplice put her in a chokehold until she passed out.
According to police, Casanova and his female associate punched the woman in the face while she was unconscious.
After the victim spoke out about the altercation in an interview with PIX11, Casanova’s attorney Scott Leeman issued a statement to the news outlet.
“Casanova adamantly denies the allegation that he assaulted anyone,” Leeman said. “Any contention he did so is totally false. We are in the process of conducting our own investigation into these false allegations.”
No other arrests have been made in the case as of Wednesday afternoon.
[This post has been updated. The following was originally published on August 11, 2018.]
A warrant for Casanova’s arrest has been issued by the NYPD, according to TMZ.
The Roc Nation rapper is accused of assaulting a woman at Good Stuff Diner in New York City. The victim, Niya Rucker, spoke to PIX11 News about the incident, which allegedly happened around 4:40 a.m. on Sunday (August 5).
Rucker claims Casanova and his crew attacked her because they thought she was livestreaming a video of them on Instagram. She says she was merely trying to show off her food to her followers.
Things became violent when they attempted to stop her and take her phone. According to Rucker, one man put her in a chokehold before dragging her out of a booth and across the diner. Casanova took her phone and deleted the video.
Rucker suffered a broken jaw and lost a tooth in the altercation. She had to get multiple stitches for a cut on her face.
“This is embarrassing,” she told PIX11. “I haven’t eaten food in three days.”
Rucker showed the New York-based news station messages from Casanova’s crew, who reportedly asked her not to speak publically about what happened.
Watch PIX11’s story on the alleged altercation below.
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Bitch move Cas bitch move. Shoulda had ya female hittas for this one.
Oh yeah. It’s bad enough there was an attack on a female by a bunch of guys. So let’s get females to carry the evil deed instead. Violence is violence. Re-evaluate your life and morals. And change your name to Wack Obama. You spit on the mans existence by tarnishing his name with your immature thinking. Grow tf up.
Bitches do need to get punched in the face though. We are all equal in the face of an ass whooping. Don’t go all MLK on us white guy (he got smoked, remember). You probably need a good knuckle sandwich like the ho Cas helped redirect… you sounding like a little bitch right now!
As soon as someone says no violence issa “white guy” lmao. too blind to see your own downfall. SMH go cry about whitey some more we see who is sounding like a little bitch!
Saw homie yesterday at SOB’s, he should be ight cause police didn’t rushed the spot.
But anyways go check out the homie MARZ MONEY single “MANNAS” FlatBush own Peoples Champ.
He ain’t beat up 69 like that he backed down
Around blacks don’t relax.
Diner at 4 am … not my old ass. Gotta wake up at 5
4:40 in the morning? I skeptical of Anybody claiming anything at that time of day. There’s gotta be more to this story. Like how she share texts from his crew? How they get her number? She obviously knew them. Like I said, gotta be more to this. That being said, these dudes are clowns regardless putting hands on a “woman”
What about 4:40 makes you skeptical. Confrontations happen at all times of day. They took her phone… they can easily get her number. What “more to the story” do you need? They obviously beat her ass. Who cares if she knew them or not?
When you pick Casanova as your rapname you just know dudes a total dickhead loser right there & then.
“Punch you in the face, muthafu**a I knock ya teeth out. Every time I come through, ni**a I got my heat out. If you want smoke, ain’t nothin’ we gotta speak ’bout. See you with that red flag on, what that be ’bout. Throw ya hood up, ni**a bang
How you tryna rep the hood, you ain’t even gang.
Throw ya hood up, ni**a bang”
How you tryna rep the hood, you ain’t even gang
Corniest rap name ever
You cosign having a woman swarmed upon by a bunch of low life dudes then you are not a man. Funny how some of these cowards in the comments will cosign on an ass beating and likely have never had one themselves. But desperately need one.
Why the fuck are you getting so emotional bro? It’s clear to see that it’s trolls writing that shit. Just ignore
Who’s emotional?
Even a Casanova has to smack a bitch now and again
Sad situation right here if its true change your name bro a lot of todays rappers appear to hate women
Slapping bitches up is pretty cool lets not forget that. Are u not entertained!!!?
I knew this guy was gonna do his best to get back into jail. Throw away the money and fame over one chick? Smh Dummy
maybe he misses his buddy tax that much and wants to join him back in the cage
He never touched Tekashi 69 but popped off on a woman in a diner. Gangsta!