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Ja Rule, Lil Wayne arrested in NYC
(AP)
Updated: 2007-07-24 09:43
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Rapper Lil' Wayne is photographed in New York on April 26, 2006.[AP]
Top-selling rappers Ja Rule and Lil Wayne were arraigned on felony gun
charges Monday following their separate arrests after a hip-hop concert
at which both had performed.
A judge set high bails and bonds for the rappers and two other men, but
the defendants were expected to be freed immediately, their bonds secured
by Ja Rule's $3.5 million house in New Jersey, bail bondsman Ira Judelson
said.
Ja Rule, of Saddle Brook, N.J., and two men with him were stopped for
speeding around 10:30 p.m. Sunday, and a police computer check of their
2004 Maybach luxury car revealed it had no insurance and a suspended
registration, prosecutors said.
When police stopped the car, which costs about $250,000 to $400,000, they
"detected a strong odor of marijuana," prosecutor Joan Illuzzi-Orbon told
the court. A loaded .40-caliber semiautomatic gun was recovered from the
rear driver's-side door, she said.
Lil Wayne, who is from New Orleans but lives in Miami, was arrested
around 11:30 p.m. while dressing in a tour bus near the Beacon Theater,
where the rappers had performed, Illuzzi-Orbon said. Approaching police
officers smelled marijuana, and as they got closer Lil Wayne, 24, tossed
aside a bag that contained a loaded .40-caliber handgun, she said.
Police believed that another person, so far uncharged, had stuffed 7
pounds of marijuana down the bus' toilet as officers approached,
prosecutors said.
All the defendants were charged with second-degree illegal gun possession.
Attorney Stacey Richman, who represented all four defendants, noted that
despite prosecutors' claim that police detected the odor of marijuana in
both arrests, nobody was charged with possession of it.
The judge set bond at $150,000 for Ja Rule, whose real name is Jeffrey
Atkins, and at $70,000 for Lil Wayne, whose real name is Dwayne Carter.
He set bond at $20,000 for Mohamed Gamal, Ja Rule's driver and limo
service owner, and at $150,000 for Dennis Cherry, Ja Rule's road manager.
Ja Rule, 31, rose to fame in the mid-1990s after appearing on a hit song
with Jay-Z and later went on to record platinum-selling solo albums.
Lil Wayne's albums include "Tha Block Is Hot," "Lights Out," "Tha Carter"
and "Tha Carter II."
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