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Entries Tagged ‘Cocaine Possession’

Rapper Coolio Reaches Plea Deal in Drug Case

Rapper Coolio has pleaded guilty in Los Angeles to felony cocaine possession in a deal that requires him to spend 18 months in rehab.
District attorney spokeswoman Jane Robison says the 45-year-old rapper, whose real name is Artis Leon Ivey, entered his plea Friday in Superior Court.
Coolio was arrested March 6 at Los Angeles International Airport. [...]

Trial Postponed for Ex-`Idol’ Finalist

 
A judge rescheduled ex-”American Idol” finalist Jessica Sierra’s trial on battery and drug charges after her lawyer said the singer is in a California rehabilitation facility.

Sierra, 21, is accused of hitting a man on the head with a glass at a Tampa nightspot in April, police said. Officers found a “small amount of cocaine” while [...]

D’Angelo Pleads Out

 The judge must have decided that D’Angelo had already been through enough.
The Voodoo purveyor was slapped with a fine and a suspended jail sentence Friday after pleading guilty in a Virginia court to driving under the influence and driving with a suspended license. The charges stemmed from the September 2005 single-car smashup that left the [...]