The police arrested newly-weds Grammy winning rapper T.I. and his wife Tameka Dianne Cottle, after they were allegedly found in possession of a controlled substance.
The couple was arrested in California late on Wednesday during a traffic stop when a cop smelled the odour of marijuana coming from their car, according to the police, TMZ reported.
The arrest isn’t the first for the 29-year-old rapper, whose real name is Clifford Joseph Harris. In 2008, he was sentenced on charges of unlawfully possessing firearms. The charges followed an arrest by federal agents a year earlier while T.I. was buying three machine guns in the parking lot of an Atlanta grocery store. T.I. was released after serving nine months in prison.
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‘Marijuana found in Hilton’s car’
Las Vegas: A police officer reported finding the butt of what he believed was a marijuana cigarette in a vehicle driven by Paris Hilton’s boyfriend after a traffic stop on the Las Vegas Strip.
A report made public on Thursday shows 34-year-old nightclub mogul Cy Waits failed field sobriety tests before his arrest late on Friday. Waits spent a night in jail on suspicion of misdemeanour driving under the influence.
He’s free on $2,000 bail. A criminal case has not yet been filed. Hilton was arrested on a felony cocaine possession charge after a police lieutenant says a bag containing 0.8 grams of cocaine fell out when she reached into a purse for a tube of lip balm. —AP