LOS ANGELES (AP) — Soulja Boy was arrested early Sunday following a site visitors cease on suspicion of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
Soulja Boy, 35, whose actual title is DeAndre Cortez Means, was a passenger throughout a site visitors cease at 2:35 a.m., police mentioned, and was arrested. Means was booked into jail within the Los Angeles Police Division’s Wilshire Division a little bit after 6 a.m., in response to the sheriff division’s inmate database.
Extra info on what prompted the cease and who else was within the automobile was not instantly accessible, police mentioned.
A consultant for Means didn’t instantly reply to The Related Press’ request for remark.
The Chicago hip-hop artist is finest recognized for his 2007 single “Crank That (Soulja Boy),” which went to No. 1 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 and introduced him a Grammy nomination for finest rap track.
The rapper was lately ordered to pay extra $4 million in damages in April after being discovered chargeable for sexually assaulting and bodily and emotionally abusing a former assistant.