MARS HILL, N.C. — Malikah Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X was being held in a North Carolina jail and could be extradited and sent back to New York to face criminal charges on several outstanding warrants, authorities said Monday.
Shabazz was arrested Friday night after police responded to a call to a Mars Hill home, said Chief Deputy Michael Garrison of the Madison County Sheriff’s Office. Detectives found that the 45-year-old Shabazz had several outstanding warrants from Queens, N.Y., including charges for grand larceny, forgery and identity theft.
Garrison and her lawyer, Sean Devereux, said Shabazz is the daughter of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X, who is also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. She was born months after Malcolm X was assassinated exactly 46 years ago Monday.
Shabazz is scheduled to appear for an extradition hearing Tuesday.
"The notion that she fled New York is really not the case," Devereux said.
Devereux said Shabazz is not fighting extradition and is eager to go to New York and deal with the matter. She’s mostly concerned about her 13-year-old daughter, who was in the custody of the local Department of Social Services, Devereux said.
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