Travis Scott’s 2024 Miami Beach trespassing case was dismissed after his defense team proved that no trespassing signs existed at the dock on the night of his arrest, according to the attorney who handled the matter.
Bradford Cohen, the lawyer who represented Scott in the case, described how a single investigative move made the difference.
The moment he received the case, he sent an investigator to photograph the dock the day after the incident.
What those photos showed was straightforward: there were no no-trespass signs posted anywhere on the property.
The arrest itself stemmed from an altercation connected to a yacht. According to Cohen, police told Scott to leave the dock and he complied.
He allegedly returned shortly after because he had left his backpack behind, and officers arrested him for trespassing on that basis.
Cohen was direct about how he viewed the charge from the start. This was a trespass case,” he said, adding that it was “a tiny case, a nothing case.
What made the case more complicated was what happened on the prosecution’s side. The state attorney, whom Cohen described as a very nice guy he knew personally, had sent his own private investigator to photograph the same dock.
Those photos showed a no-trespass sign clearly in place. The problem, as Cohen quickly identified, was the timing.
“When were these taken?” Cohen recalled asking. The answer was that the photos had been taken the week before trial, not on the night of the arrest.
Cohen then produced his own set of photographs taken the day after the incident, showing no such sign existed at the time Scott was arrested. That’s how we ended up getting that case dismissed,” he said.
Cohen suggested the state attorney had been misled by his own investigator rather than acting in bad faith, a distinction he was careful to make.
The prosecution’s case rested on a sign that, by the defense’s photographic evidence, simply was not there when the alleged trespass took place.
For Cohen, the outcome illustrated a principle he applies regardless of the profile of the client or the scale of the charge. “I treat every case like it’s a big case,” he said.
The Travis Scott matter, minor as it was in legal terms, became a clear example of how early investigative work can determine the result of a case before it ever reaches trial.
Scott, who Cohen noted he crossed paths with in Monaco around the same time, was not convicted on any charge in the matter. The case was dismissed.
