Charges Against 'Star and Buc Wild' DJ Troi Torain Dropped

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Criminal charges against a New York hip-hop disc jockey -- fired for racist and sexually threatening comments about a rival's wife and daughter -- will be dropped, the District Attorney's office said on Thursday.

The case against Troi Torain, who goes by the name DJ Star, will be dropped in six months if he does three days community service and stays away from the four-year-old victim of his comments, said New York District Attorney spokeswoman Barbara Thompson.

Torain, 42, was fired by Clear Channel Radio's Power 105.1 station in May for what Clear Channel said were "wholly unacceptable" comments. He was arrested by detectives from the Hate Crimes Unit two days later.

Torain made anti-Asian comments about Gia Casey, the wife of a rival disc jockey at another radio station, Raashaun Casey, known as DJ Envy, and made comments that implied a threat of sexual abuse against the couple's child.

At the time Benjamin Brafman, Torain's lawyer, said his client had apologized for the comments, but said they were the culmination of a long-running verbal battle that had "spiraled out of control."

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