Recently released MC heads southwest to wrap up loose ends of 2008 drug arrest.
By Mawuse Ziegbe, with reporting by Matt Elias
Lil Wayne
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Just a day after his release from prison, Lil Wayne staying on the move.
The rapper hit in Arizona on Friday (5 november) after jetting from New York hours before applying for a court appearance.Of the MC motorcade was spotted in Yuma Friday afternoon, which is expected to Wayne sign paperwork associated with a two-year-old drug arrest.
The superstar songwriter was driver in a black Ford Tour as part of a six-Car-caravan. The vehicles circled the Arizona Superior Court in Yuma County around 1: 10 a.m. local time, where several bystanders a glimpse of the MC in 84-degree heat expected. However, Wayne did not enter the courthouse, and finished his legal Affairs blocks away in the Centre of Adult probation of province of Yuma, leaving around 1: 45 pm
Wayne was picked up on January 22, 2008, at a u.s. border patrol checkpoint where officials alleged ecstasy, cocaine and a gun was found on the MC'S tour bus.Weezy copped a plea deal during his eight months Rikers bid for the cost of the weapons for the case of Arizona, and a sentence of community service and three years of uncontrolled trial was handed over. Wayne was able to get additional jail time via the deal skirt and pleaded guilty to one count of possession of a dangerous drug in exchange for the dismissal of three other drugs and weapons charges.
"Although while on trial, if his trial without any infringements is complete, it is treated as a crime, the offense will be reclassified as a crime," said Wayne's Arizona Attorney, James Tilson, MTV News on Tuesday.
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The rest of the Weezy planning is not down is connected but the members of the newly freed MC'S camp have hinted that he's got a jet-setting weekend ahead.That Drake has plagued a possible Weezy appearance on the last stop of the Toronto lyricist light dreams and Nightmares Tour in Las Vegas. Moreover, gave Wayne's ex-wife Antonia Carter "Toya", told MTV News an intimate family gathering in the works in Miami and Young Money label boss Mack Maine is, details of the MC'S blowout bash Sunday evening in the city of Florida.
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