According to the Associated Press Malcolm X’s youngest daughter is being held in North Carolina on an arrest warrant from Queens, stemming from an accusation that she stole from the widow of one of her father’s bodyguards.
Malikah Shabazz was arrested Friday night in Mars Hill, N.C., and faces an extradition hearing later today (Tues., Feb. 22).
Sheriff’s deputies in North Carolina were reportedly investigating a call that a child at her home was not attending school. Her attorney told the Associated Press that Shabazz’s daughter was being home-schooled. However, when deputies discovered Shabazz’s warrant, which was from 2009, they arrested her.
The warrant included charges of grand larceny and identity theft. A law enforcement official said Shabazz was accused of stealing the identity of a family friend, the widow of one of Malcolm X’s bodyguards, and taking about $30,000 to pay bills and other personal expenses.
Shabazz, 45, was born a few months after her father was assassinated in Harlem on Feb. 21, 1965. She is currently involved in a dispute with her sisters over the estate left by their mother, Betty Shabazz – who died from injuries she sustained in a 1997 fire set by one of her grandsons.
Information from the Associated Press contributed to this report.
