2 Chainz Charged With Misdemeanor In OKC Bus Incident

2 Chainz has been charged with a misdemeanor after being accused of refusing police commands to exit a tour bus during a traffic stop in Oklahoma City in August.

2 Chainz — whose real name is Tauheed Epps — was charged with obstructing an officer in the performance of his official duties. If convicted, he faces up to a year in prison and a $1,000 fine.

The Atlanta rapper’s tour bus was pulled over just before midnight on August 21 due to a broken taillight. An officer reported smelling an “overwhelming odor of marijuana” and seeing “smoke on the bus around the door,” but the driver, Sedric Arozell Brooks, refused to let police officers onboard to search the vehicle. Others on the bus refused multiple orders to exit.

Police arrested the driver, 2 Chainz, and nine other individuals after the bus was towed to a nearby police training center. They also said that the occupants got off the bus nine hours after the initial stop after the police officers obtained a search warrant. Police found marijuana on the bus, but didn’t to whom it belonged, so no one was charged.

“In the end, we didn’t find much of it,” Assistant District Attorney Matt Dillon said of the marijuana evidence. “What we did find wasn’t in any location where we could show knowledge on anyone’s part.”

Police also found two semi-automatic pistols and a 12-gauge shotgun.

A bodyguard, Rory Dorell Smith, was charged with a drug offense over painkillers, for which he did not have a prescription.

The incident caused 2 Chainz to miss a Conde Nast Bon Appetit party in New York for the release of his second studio album, B.O.A.T.S. II: Me Time and an accompanying cookbook.

2 Chainz was arrested on drug charges at LAX in June. The 36-year-old was removed from an outbound flight and arrested after TSA searched his checked baggage and found marijuana and promethazine, one of the key ingredients in “sizzurp.” He was also previously arrested in Maryland on a possession charge in February, but was acquitted two months later because a judge felt there was no evidence to proof that the marijuana and grinder belonged to him.

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