LL Cool J’s son arrested, thrown in cell

LL Cool J’s son is currently in the news, but not for the right reason. He was arrested by the police after he was engaged in a brawl with a group of men.

The police didn’t even know who he was until he was thrown into a cell.

He was kicked out of a nightclub in the Meatpacking District on Tuesday and later arrested after an early morning brawl, police sources said.

Najee Smith, 26, was inside of the Catch Rooftop on Ninth Avenue and West 13th Street, when he got into a fist fight with a group of six to seven men around 3:15 a.m., sources said.

But when security tried to break it up, Smith was acting belligerent and combative, sources said.

It wasn’t until he was thrown in a jail cell later that morning that cops discovered who he was when they heard him talking about himself, said a source.

“He was so drunk that they held him in the cell,” and made him go through the system, police sources said.

“If he wasn’t so intoxicated, he would’ve gotten a DAT [desk appearance ticket],” said a source familiar with his arrest case.

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Smith, who lives in Manhasset, Long Island, was charged with criminal trespassing, along with a woman, Gabrielle Rugato, was issued a court summons for disorderly conduct, cops said.

Smith’s uncle said LL Cool J is currently in California, and the family had no idea he’d been arrested until this afternoon

“His mother doesn’t understand how this happened,” he told The Post outside the rapper’s gated mansion. “She’s shocked. She doesn’t know anything about it. She’s calling him right now.”

“He’s a good kid,” the uncle added. “But I guess this is a typical 26-year-old problem.

Two other men, Slamur Kastrataj, 25, and Darrin Myles, 22, were also slapped with criminal trespassing charges, cops said.”

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