We havent really posted any celebrity crime news, so here goes:
PASADENA, California (AP) — Snoop Dogg was charged Tuesday with felony gun and drug counts, Los Angeles County prosecutors said.
The 35-year-old rap star was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday in Pasadena, California, prosecutors said in a statement.
Snoop Dogg faces charges of gun possession by a felon and sale or transportation of marijuana.
He was first arrested October 26 by Burbank police at Bob Hope Airport on suspicion of transportation of a controlled substance. Burbank police later discovered a gun at his home.
If convicted, he faces up to four years in state prison.
“These were changes we fully expected,” said Snoop Dogg’s attorney Donald Etra. “They will be dealt with in court tomorrow. The matter will be resolved tomorrow.”
The rapper was convicted in 1990 of cocaine possession and charged with gun possession after a 1993 traffic stop. He pleaded guilty in exchange for three years’ probation and a promise to make public service announcements against violence.
The rapper’s manager, Constance Schwartz, said there would be no comment Tuesday but a written statement would be issued Wednesday.
STEVENS POINT, Wis., March 7 (UPI) — A man called police in Stevens Point, Wis., and claimed he was unsuccessful in trying to break into St. Paul’s Lutheran Church.
Officials told the Stevens Point Journal the 24-year-old caller said he needed help after trying Saturday night to bash his way through the door with a metal shovel. Police officers met the man in the church parking lot.
Police reports said the man told officers he wanted to get married at the church. Officers searched the man and said they discovered marijuana in a “prescription bottle.”
The man then reportedly showed police his house, pointing out more marijuana. He allegedly stated he was also storing stolen prescription muscle relaxants.
Police arrested the man. The paper said “tentative charges” were filed, alleging criminal property damage and possession of marijuana, drug paraphernalia and prescription drugs.
Capt. Kevin Ruder told the Journal the case is “definitely a weird one.”
Orangeburg, SC (AHN) - A man carrying 43 pounds of marijuana in the trunk of his Chevrolet Malibu was arrested Sunday after crashing into a South Carolina police cruiser. He had been driving about 70 mph on northbound Interstate 95 when he hit a cruiser parked in one of the lanes.AP reports that Highway Patrol Capt. Chris Williamson said the officer whose vehicle was hit had minor injuries.
The driver, 54-year-old Howard R. Fisher, had two large duffel bags in his trunk packed with plastic bags of marijuana worth more than $150,000, according to Orangeburg deputy Warren Pendry.
The officers also found marijuana joints and cocaine in Fisher’s car.
He was charged with driving under the influence, cocaine possession and trafficking marijuana.
What is this guy thinking? I dont understand it, hes acting like giving marijuana to a 2 year old and 5 year old is no big deal! Check out the video of the interview with this guy:
WATAUGA, Texas — A 17-year-old faces a felony charge of injury to a child after police found a videotape that appears to show him and another man teaching his 2- and 5-year-old nephews to smoke marijuana, police said. The video shows two children being taught to smoke marijuana and the men encouraging them to “get high,” police said. A man can be seen placing a marijuana cigarette into a baby’s mouth and, in another part of the video, a different boy is shown smoking on his own.
“The video contains disturbing images of the young children being badgered into smoking a marijuana cigar, commonly referred to as a ‘blunt,’” according to a release from the Watauga Department of Public Safety.
The bail for Demetris McCoy, 17, was set at $150,000. He remained in jail Friday night, police said.
Police found the video Feb. 22 while investigating McCoy and Vanswan Polty, 18, in connection with some area burglaries. Polty faces burglary charges and is free on $22,000 bail, according to court records.
The children have been in the custody of Child Protective Services since last week, a spokeswoman said.
A school teacher has been arrested on suspicion of snorting cocaine in front of the class she was teaching.
Two girls, aged nine and ten, said they saw Joan Donatelli, 59, dipping a pen cap into a plastic bag filled with white powder, then putting it to her nose.
Police confronted the substitute teacher at her home in Lewiston, New York, after finding traces of white powder in the classroom, reports Metro.
She handed over a small bag of powder and two pen caps and admitting to using cocaine in front of the children.
“She stated that she had a problem, that she had an addiction, something she’s been struggling with,” said Sergeant Frank Previte.
The school confirmed that Donatelli used to teach at the school full time, but is now retired, and acts as a substitute.
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Banks are great places to leave valuables, like jewelry, birth certificates, cash — and pot.
Adrian Hilton, 26, was accused of depositing a marijuana stash in a Pizza Pit deposit bag and slipping the bundle into a night deposit box at American Bank and Trust last fall.
According to a criminal complaint, Hilton, a delivery driver for Pizza Pit, admitted the marijuana was his and that he had inadvertently deposit it.
Hilton was charged with possession of marijuana, but Assistant Johnson County Attorney David Tiffany said he would ask a judge to dismiss the charge since a bank teller gave the marijuana back to Hilton when he returned to the bank the next day.
“The bank teller gave the marijuana back to him so we didn’t have any evidence,” Tiffany said. “She was smart enough to call police, but then she gave it back to him.”
Tiffany said no charges would be filed against the teller.
HAWTHORNE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities said Eloise Reaves recently complained to a sheriff’s deputy after getting a beat rock. Reaves was arrested after she approached a Putnam County, N.C., deputy at a convenience store.
Reaves said that instead of crack, the rock she bought was a mixture of wax and cocaine. A local newspaper reported that the woman even put the bad crack on the deputy’s patrol car for inspection.
The deputy inspected the rock and took the woman into custody for possession of a controlled candle.
Reaves also filed complaints against the dealer with the Better Business Bureau, the Anti-Consumer Fraud Coalition and “Fight Back with David Horowitz’s†David Horowitz.
Jay, Okla. (AP) — Sheriff’s deputies have arrested a Grove man on drug charges after finding crystal methamphetamine inside his prosthetic leg. Larry Clinton Harper, 64, was arrested at his business, Harper’s Used Cars and Body Shop, last week.
During a search, deputies found drugs inside a sock-like covering inside Harper’s prosthetic leg, said Delaware County Sheriff’s Capt. Larry Barnett.
“They just tumbled out, and he just laughed,” Barnett said. “He said he thought he was pulling the wool over our eyes, but we had the last laugh.”
The arrest followed successful drug buys from Harper’s business, Barnett said.
STEVENS POINT, Wis., March 7 (UPI) — 
Orangeburg, SC (AHN) - A man carrying 43 pounds of marijuana in the trunk of his Chevrolet Malibu was arrested Sunday after crashing into a South Carolina police cruiser. He had been driving about 70 mph on northbound Interstate 95 when he hit a cruiser parked in one of the lanes.AP reports that Highway Patrol Capt. Chris Williamson said the officer whose vehicle was hit had minor injuries.
WATAUGA, Texas — 
A school teacher has been arrested on suspicion of snorting cocaine in front of the class she was teaching.
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Banks are great places to leave valuables, like jewelry, birth certificates, cash — and pot.
Jay, Okla. (AP) — Sheriff’s deputies have arrested a Grove man on drug charges after finding crystal methamphetamine inside his prosthetic leg. Larry Clinton Harper, 64, was arrested at his business, Harper’s Used Cars and Body Shop, last week.
