EVERETT — A blind rapper with a history of run-ins with the law was behind bars Thursday after a SWAT team was called to a home on the Tulalip Indian Reservation.
Wayne Frisby, who goes by Mac Wayne in the local rap scene, was booked into the Snohomish County Jail for investigation of assault, harassment and parole violations. He is accused of stabbing an acquaintance in the hand with a knife.
After driving the suspect to a home on the reservation, the woman called police and went to Providence Regional Medical Center Everett to have her wound treated, Snohomish County sheriff’s spokeswoman Shari Ireton said.
Deputies believe Frisby, 31, barricaded himself inside the home in the 4500 block of Shoemaker Road. Several other people were inside the home at the time.
The SWAT team was summoned around 5 a.m., and Frisby came out of the house around 6:30 a.m. without incident, Ireton said. Six people inside the home were detained. Tulalip and Marysville police aided deputies.
In 2013, Frisby was sentenced to three months in the county jail for having heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine concealed in his clothes.
The drugs were discovered as Frisby was being booked in connection with a bizarre reported robbery in Marysville.
Frisby beat the robbery rap after the alleged victim recanted her story. She first told police that Frisby chopped off a chunk of her hair and stole her car keys. Officers found a clump of hair where the woman said the heist happened. Her car was missing from its parking spot. Prosecutors were forced to drop the robbery charge after the woman’s story changed regarding Frisby’s involvement.
He was back behind bars by July 2014 after police in Everett and Tulalip caught him with drugs and weapons. In Everett, Frisby was toting around a .40-caliber handgun in a backpack. At Tulalip, it was a set of brass knuckles and heroin. The dope was discovered because Frisby began talking to police with a “tooter,” a small pipe used for smoking drugs, stuck behind his ear.
Frisby in February 2015 was sentenced to more than a year in prison. At the time, his attorney said the rapper would struggle to pay his court fines and fees. The judge called the lawyer’s attention to music videos that featured Frisby flashing lots of what appeared to be real cash.
Eric Stevick: 425-339-3446; stevick@heraldnet.com
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