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Officials: Pot Found On 2 Lil' Wayne Tour Buses

07:19 AM, Saturday 12/19/09 5 |   |

Rapper Lil' Wayne and 11 people traveling with him were briefly detained Friday night after U.S. Border Patrol officers found marijuana on two of his tour buses, authorities said.

Lil' Wayne, whose real name is Dwayne Carter, and the others were questioned and released, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and the case was referred to the Brooks County Sheriff's Office.

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A sheriff's spokeswoman told The Associated Press that she could not comment.

The tour buses were stopped in Falfurrias, about 80 miles southwest of Corpus Christi, where the rapper is scheduled to perform Sunday night.

Lil' Wayne played in Hidalgo on Thursday. A few minutes before the doors were to open for his show in Laredo on Friday, it was announced that the show was postponed. A marketing manager for the venue told the Corpus Christi Caller-Times that it would be rescheduled.

A drug dog initially detected the odor of narcotics on one of the buses, the CBP said in a news release. Marijuana was found during secondary inspections, the agency said.

Lil' Wayne's music manager Cortez Bryant and talent agent Cara Lewis did not immediately return phone messages left at their offices.

The rapper pleaded guilty in October to attempted criminal possession of a weapon in a New York case, a charge that stemmed from a 2007 traffic stop of his tour bus. His plea deal calls for a year in jail in that case. He is set to appear for sentencing in February.


5 Comments leave a comment

  1. 347
    LASCENE wrote:

    11:31 AM, Dec 19, 2009

    A rapper & his entourage with Buds on the tour bus?  I guess their is a 1st for everything!  What's next, Guns?  GASP!  Get a grip Texas, or maybe the next bus will 'SHOOT THE SHERIFF!'   I thought the Border Patrol was supposed to take the Buds away from the Mexican cartel smuggling the green across the border, not the posse's vitamins!.  

  2. 28
    crispy smegma wrote:

    12:02 PM, Dec 19, 2009

    Lil' Wayne smokes marijuana? That's messed up.

  3. 108
    securitypro wrote:

    12:04 PM, Dec 20, 2009

    Are you serious LASCENE??  Law enforcement is law enforcement.  I have nothing against bud but the way some of these hood booger rappers flaunt it and treat it, they have it coming.  Lil' Wayne is a no talent piece of crap that does not deserve the recognition he has anyway.  

  4. 347
    LASCENE wrote:

    12:20 PM, Dec 20, 2009

    Ask Willie Nelson!

  5. 474
    angie wrote:

    08:09 AM, Dec 21, 2009

    they probably wanted to get him for those ridiculous as *** tattoos all over his ugly mug, but they figured mary jane was a more legit charge to stand up with in court.



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