Yet another arrest for 'Snoop Dogg'
U.S. rapper Snoop Dogg has made a hatrick by landing in the jail for the third consecutive time in three months. After recording an edition of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Tuesday as the 35-year-old performer left the NBC studio in Burbank he was arrested near Los Angeles on weapons and narcotics charges.
A spokesman for the Burbank Police Department reported that marijuana, cocaine and a firearm were found in the rap star’s car. Snoop Dogg, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, was booked, and bail set at $60, 000.
Earlier in October, the rapper was arrested at Burbank Airport after the police found a gun and marijuana in his car. He was booked and released on $35, 000 bail, pending a hearing on December 12.
He was also charged earlier this month for attempting to carry a deadly weapon, a collapsible police baton, placed in his computer bag, onto a plane at John Wayne Airport in Orange County in September.
Burbank Police Sgt. Kevin Grandalski said Broadus was served with a search warrant after 6 p.m. in the 400 block of Bob Hope Drive, just outside the NBC studios. He said, “Investigators searched the suspect, his car and his home in Diamond Bar, prompting them to file charges of his being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, possession of cocaine, possession of marijuana for sale and having a false compartment in a vehicle.”
The Rap star made his recording debut in the early 1990s as a gangsta-rap protege of Dr Dre and his 1993 debut album "Doggystyle," entered the charts at number one. After he shot to fame in Rap, the singer also played a drug-dealer-turned-informant in the 2004 cop movie Starsky & Hutch.
