Lil Wayne Pleads Guilty to Gun Charge, Sentenced 1 Year Behind Bars

The Grammy-winning rap artist Lil Wayne pleaded guilty on Thursday to attempted criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, a felony, and is to be sentenced to a year behind bars under a plea agreement with prosecutors, the Manhattan district attorney’s office announced.

In a 13th-floor courtroom in State Supreme Court, the rapper, whose given name is Dwayne M. Carter Jr., entered a guilty plea before Justice Charles H. Solomon, who reminded the defendant that the plea would have no bearing on charges that he is facing in other states.

Police said a gun was found on Lil Wayne’s tour bus in Manhattan in 2007. Lil Wayne acknowledged in court that there was a gun on the bus and identified it as a .40-caliber semiautomatic pistol.
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Flesh-N-Bone Arrested on Gun and Drug Possession

Stanley Howse, better known as rapper Flesh-N-Bone, of the platinum-selling rap group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, was arrested after deputies said they found a gun, ammunition and drugs in his Canyon Country home on Thursday.

Santa Clarita Valley sheriff’s deputies pulled over Howse, 35, for an alleged traffic violation at 5:30 p.m in the 27400 block of Lise Lane, Lt. Robert Lewis said.

Howse was released from prison in 2008 after serving a sentence for a conviction on weapons charges and currently is on parole, Lewis said.
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