Lil Wayne booked on 3 felony drug charges
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Lil Wayne booked on 3 felony drug charges
PHOENIX - Lil Wayne was arrested on three felony drug charges Wednesday after federal agents said they found illegal drugs including cocaine on his charter bus at a checkpoint in southwestern Arizona.
The rapper (real name: Dwayne Michael Carter Jr.) was being held at the Yuma County Sheriff’s jail on state drug charges, Capt. Eben Bratcher said.
Carter appeared via video arraignment late Wednesday morning in a court in Wellton, 35 miles east of Yuma.
James Tilson, a local lawyer retained by Carter, said his client was not formally charged and his next court date was scheduled for Jan. 25.
“We will find out by Jan. 25 whether or not the (Yuma) county attorney will file charges or not,” Tilson said. “He is looking forward to his day in court. That’s all I can say right now.”
His bond was set at $10,185. Tilson said they were working on his release.
The 25-year-old faces charges of possession of dangerous drugs, narcotics and drug paraphernalia.
Bratcher said Carter’s bus was stopped about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday at a Border Patrol checkpoint near Dateland, Ariz., 78 miles east of Yuma.
Drug Enforcement Administration spokeswoman Ramona Sanchez said a Border Patrol canine unit alerted agents to the presence of illegal drugs on the bus. Among what a search yielded: nearly four ounces of marijuana and just over an ounce of cocaine as well as drug paraphernalia. DEA agents then arrested Carter, who was traveling with 11 others.
Officials also found a .40-caliber pistol registered to Carter, who has a concealed weapons permit in Florida. Authorities are looking into whether he violated any weapons laws in Arizona.
Two other men were arrested with him; they each face a charge of possession of marijuana.
In October, Carter and several other rappers were named in a federal lawsuit filed by music publishing companies, accusing them of sampling other artists’ songs without paying licensing fees.
Rapper Birdman and Lil Wayne won a viewers’ choice award for their song “Stuntin’ Like My Daddy” at Black Entertainment Television’s 2007 Hip-Hop Awards.
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posted by DiBiase at 1:11 PM
2 Comments:
YOU GET TO A CERTAIN POINT IN YOUR CAREER YOU THINK YOU WOULD STOP DOING CERTAIN THINGS!I ACTUALLY SAW LIL WAYNE ON MTV CRIBS AND HE SAID HE DIDNT HAVE RIMS ON HIS CARS BECAUSE HE WAS "SO GROWN UP" IS HE? YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THIS DUDE WWW.MYSPACE.COM/VONWON
lol... "SO grown up", I remember that episode. Really though, why should he care? #1 he's not a felon, #2 it's just some drugs, #3 he had license for the gun. T.I. was a dumb ass because he knew he could do some SERIOUS time if he was caught with these guns... Wayne will ultimately get a slap on the hand.
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