The incident took place during one of several fights that spilled onto a patio area of Miami’s trendy Streets of Mayfair shopping center after a show at the nearby Improv Comedy Club, a Miami police spokesman told Pollstar.

Juvenile reportedly believed he had been “dissed” by another club patron, Jackson Saint Ange. The rapper and his nearly 20-person entourage poured out of the Improv and down an escalator, where fights broke out, including a second confrontation between Juvenile – aka Terius Gray – and Saint Ange.

Police alleged that Juvenile struck Saint Ange over the head with a Moet champagne bottle, knocking him cold and causing a head injury. But amid what the spokesman termed “mayhem,” police would have probably remained unaware of the assault had Juvenile himself not assisted authorities.

Police were attempting to break up the melees when Saint Ange was struck, according to police spokesman Delrish Moss, and only learned of the assault from other witnesses. They were trying to break up one fight when Juvenile approached them.

“The rap artist walks over to one of our police officers, grabs him and starts yelling obscenities at him insisting he be taken to jail rather than the person we were in the process of arresting,” Moss said.

Juvenile managed to flee the scene but was later spotted by officers cursing yet another club patron, according to The Miami Herald. As police approached, Juvenile tried to take refuge in a tour bus but was later arrested.

He was probably in Miami promoting his own record label, UTP, a Cash Money spokesperson told the paper. “He was not out there on Cash Money business,” she said.

A spokesperson for the Improv Comedy Club was not available for comment.

The rapper was charged with felony aggravated battery with a bottle and battery on a police officer, and misdemeanors for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest without violence, according to Herald.

The New Orleans-based artist posted a $17,000 bond and is due back for arraignment in Miami-Dade Circuit Court on April 18.