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  • Trick Daddy Arrested Again for Drug and Weapon Possession

    Rapper Trick Daddy’s music career lacks the steam it had in the early 2000s, but he finally made headlines again this week…but not for his music.

    Thursday, Trick Daddy, whose real name is Maurice Young, was arrested at his Miramar, Florida home for cocaine and weapons charges.

    According to the police report issued to MTV news by the Broward County Sheriff’s office, his charges also include, along with the cocaine and weapon ones, driving with a suspended license.

    The Broward County Drug Task Force received a sniff warrant to search Young’s house. They were performing surveillance on it when he pulled up to the driveway. When approached by the task force, Young admitted he used cocaine and possibly marijuana before they arrived. During their search, the task force allegedly found 1 gram of a white, powdery substance (which was tested and proven to be cocaine), and a 9mm Sig Sauer pistol with ammunition.

    Young was previously convicted in 1991 for cocaine possession, carrying a concealed firearm, and violating probation. He served two and a half years in prison. In 2003, he was also arrested on assault charges. Reports state that Young allegedly threatened to kill a man over a street basketball game. He was charged with aggravated assault with a firearm, possession of a firearm, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Because of these charges, Young possession of a gun on his recent arrest is a felony because convicted criminals are not allowed to own guns of any kind.

    Young was released early Friday on a $6,100 bond.

    Young has collaborated with Pitbull, Young Jeezy, and Cee Lo Green. He began his rap career in 1993, and released his debut album Based on a True Story in 1997. Young followed up that one with 8 other records. Young’s biggest hit single was “I’m a Thug” in 2001. Young’s latest album, Finally Famous: Born a Thug, Still a Thug was released in 2009. Additionally, that was the year he announced he was suffering from Lupus.

    Image via Trick Daddy, Instagram

  • Trick Daddy Busted For Drugs, Gun Possession

    Busted again.

    When Rapper Trick Daddy was arrested Thursday for a multitude of drug and weapons charges outside his Florida home, he wondered if it might be for child support payments.

    According to an arrest report, Maurice Young — better known as Trick Daddy — was backing his SUV out of his home in Miramar around 10 a.m. Thursday morning when officers asked him to get out of his car. As he complied with their request, he asked them if he was being pulled over for being in arrears in his child support payment.

    Nope, that’s not it Trick Daddy.

    Apparently, members of the Broward County Drug Task Force were carrying out a surveillance on his home in reference to a pending “sniff” warrant at his residence.

    According to the report, Young admitted his license was suspended, he was late in child support, but didn’t consider other possibilities until deputies informed him it concerned drugs.

    “He confirmed he was aware and asked if it was in reference to child support payments,” an officer said in the police report.

    The 40-year-old rapper subsequently told the arresting officers he had some cocaine and “maybe a marijuana roach, but no grow house.”

    Upon entering the home, deputies found a gram of cocaine on a nightstand and a 9mm Sig Sauer gun under a pillow on a nearby bed. They also found ammunition in a closet.

    Young told police he is a convicted felon and has been arrested previously for trafficking narcotics, possession of ammunition by a convicted felon and possession of cocaine.

    Since Young is a convicted felon, it is illegal for him to possess weapons.

    He was released from Broward County jail on $6,100 bond early Friday.

    Young faces charges of possession of firearm by a convicted felon, possession of ammo by a convicted felon, possession of cocaine, and driving on a suspended license.

    Young posted to Twitter since the arrest:

    Image via Instagram, Trick Daddy