Playboi Carti cited for misdemeanor assault after Park City altercation

Jordan Terrell Carter, the rapper known as Playboi Carti, was issued a citation for misdemeanor assault after an altercation with his girlfriend and a limousine driver on Oct. 2 in the Park City area, according to a Wasatch County police report. Deputies responded to a reported fight near River Road and state Route 40 after the limousine driver said he was struck while transporting Carter and his entourage to a rehearsal ahead of an Oct. 3 performance.

The limousine driver told deputies that he had picked up Carter and his party at a Park City hotel and was taking them to Utah Valley University in Orem when an argument between Carter and his girlfriend escalated. The driver said he intervened and asked that Carter’s security and the couple travel in separate vehicles. When he stopped the vehicle to separate them, a dispute continued outside the cars, the driver said, and he was struck without warning. "I turned my head for just a brief minute off to the right hand side, and this expletive hits me in the face," the driver told police, according to the report.

Responding deputies documented redness and a mark on the left lower jaw of the driver that they described as consistent...