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Snoop Dogg is now facing charges for a past arrest from Oct 2006 arrest at California’s Burbank airport. The rapper was allegedly searched for a parking violation at an unloading dock at the airport. On Tues official charges were pressed for drug and gun possession. The search was dubbed unwarranted and all charges may be dropped on a future court date. The rapper could face up to four years in prison if convicted, he was charged in 1990 for illegal possession of drugs with the alleged intent to sell. With this felony charge on record, the time faced could be more of a reality. Although the search and seizure charges have not be officially confirmed it is thought that the most recent charges will be dropped due to poor procedure and the unlawful search of his vehicle. His arraignment is set for today to see if these charges will stick.

With Busta Rhymes facing two charges of assault, the courts may not be so lenient; one of the charges he is facing is for the assault of his previous driver, and the other of a fan who allegedly spit on the rappers car after a concert. Rhymes is expected to appear in court on may 8th following these charges. He could face up to a year in prison for the charges, but this would be the maximum penalty including a small fine. Check out the other charges under the Hip hop news category...Innocent until proven guilty…

Heard of Jacob the Jeweler before? many legendary artists have worn his jewelry as well as made references to him in albums and mixtapes. He is infamous in the hip hop community as the “king of Bling”, but in recent news he has been set to stand trial for a money laundering scheme out of Detroit Michigan. The alleged scandal was said to have involved over 250 million dollars of drug money, set to be laundered through numerous different ventures. There have been no convictions, but sixteen other people have also been charged in the case. The Michigan court system denied “Jacob” the right to have the trial moved to New York. His attorney was not eager to have him stand trial among accused drug dealers, and it may cause prejudgments. The court has denied these allegations and Jacob is still set to stand trial in Detroit with the others accused for the alleged national drug ring run out of Detroit, Michigan. He was charged in June of 2006 and still awaits trial, no one has been found guilty.

Artist and rapper Snoop Dogg was allegedly arrested in Stockholm, Sweden, and held over night on suspicion on narcotics. Snoop was pulled over shortly after 1 am in the morning, after apparently showing signs of drug use. Snoop was on his was to a concert after party when he was pulled over, and taken into the police station, after the police had ran a search on his vehicle a small amount of an unidentified substance was allegedly found, but police have yet to charge him with possession. Most of the country may have read about this after it was reported to cnn.com