EVERETT — A blind rapper from Snohomish County with a demonstrated talent for finding trouble is facing fresh felony charges after he allegedly attacked his girlfriend with a knife when she asked him to pay back some money.
Wayne Frisby, who records rap as Mac Wayne, was charged Aug. 12 with second-degree assault and harassment. Both counts were committed as acts of domestic violence, prosecutors allege.
The Snohomish County Superior Court charges stem from an investigation that began July 21, when a woman, 34, showed up at an area hospital with a knife wound to one of her hands.
The woman told investigators that Frisby, 32, had called her early that morning and said he had an emergency and needed a ride, Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Francesca Yahyavi said in court papers.
She picked up Frisby and a friend at a home on the Tulalip Indian Reservation and then drove them near Lake Goodwin. Frisby, whom she’d been dating for a few months, told her he was picking up some cash.
The woman said she was driving along 140th Street NE when she reminded Frisby that he owed her some money.
“The defendant became very upset and grabbed (her) by the hair, then struck her twice in the head near her ear,” Yahyavi wrote. The woman said Frisby then pulled a knife and thrust it toward her face.
She was cut on the right hand trying to ward off the weapon. The passenger in the vehicle intervened, bringing an end to the attack, she said.
Frisby allegedly continued to make threats, telling the woman, “One more word and I’ll slit you from ear to ear and bury you on the side of the road,” Yahyavi said.
The woman stopped at a gas station. She was able to drive away after Frisby and the other man left the vehicle.
Police were called to the hospital and then went looking for Frisby. They found him seated on the front porch of a home on the reservation. He ran inside and refused to come out. The SWAT team was called. He surrendered about an hour later.
At the time, Frisby was wanted on a warrant from the state Department of Corrections, which is supervising him for a 2014 drug case.
The drugs were found because Frisby began talking to Tulalip police with a “tooter,” a small pipe used for smoking drugs, stuck behind his ear. Just weeks before, he was arrested by cops in Everett with a handgun in a backpack. He’d only recently completed a jail sentence for having heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine concealed in his clothes.
The dope in that case was discovered when Frisby was being arrested in connection with a woman’s reported kidnapping and robbery. She told officers that Frisby chopped off a chunk of her hair and took her car keys. Officers found the woman’s hair, but prosecutors were forced to drop charges after she changed her story.
While that drama played out, Frisby disappeared but kept active on social media, cultivating his outlaw rapper image. He’s billed himself as “the undisputed Ray Charles of rap, 100 percent blind and 100 percent raw.”
Frisby wound up sentenced to more than a year in prison for the drugs found in 2014.
On Friday he was locked up in Snohomish County Jail, his bail set at $250,000.
Scott North: 425-339-3431; north@heraldnet.com. Twitter: @snorthnews.
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