Rapper TI arrested for drug possession

Published: 8:32AM Friday September 03, 2010 Source: Reuters

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Rapper TI has been released from jail after being arrested on suspicion of possessing ecstasy, police said.

TI whose real name is Clifford Harris Jr, 29, was arrested with his wife on Sunset Boulevard Wednesday night after police smelled marijuana coming from a car in which the Grammy award-winning rapper was a passenger.

He was booked for possession of a controlled substance and was released after posting bail of $US10,000. He is yet to be formally charged because testing is currently being conducted on a handful of "pills resembling ecstasy," a spokeswoman for the the Los Angeles County sheriff's department said.

TI's next court appearance has been set for Saturday (NZT).

The Atlanta-born rapper and actor previously has been in trouble with the law, including numerous arrests on drugs and weapons charges. He was released from a halfway house five months ago after being sentenced to a year in prison on federal weapons charges.

The co-founder of Grand Hustle Records, distributed by Warner Music Group's Atlantic Records, he currently can be seen in the heist film Takers, that grabbed the No. 1 spot at the North American box office last weekend.

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