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Coolio Busted for Crack

Posted Mar 6th 2009 2:40PM by TMZ Staff

TMZ has learned Coolio has just been arrested at LAX for possession of crack cocaine.

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We're told the rapper was going through a security screening to get to his Southwest Airlines flight when a screener found crack cocaine on his person.

Sources close to the situation tell us Coolio -- real name Artis Leon Ivey, Jr -- got physical with the screener at some point during the incident.

Coolio Launch PhotosCoolio posted $10,000 bail was released at 3:22 PM.

UPDATE -- It looks like Coolio was headed to Tulsa, Okla. to play a gig tonight at the Flytrap Music Hall. His co-headliners: Tone Loc and Shock G of The Digital Underground. Holy 90s!!!




Tags: arrested, coolio, crack cocaine, CrackCocaine, drugs, lax

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31. Was it the stress of having Oxygen TV and their Crappy camera crew following him that turned him back to crack? If that is the reason then I understand because just watching Oxygen makes me want to do drugs.

Posted at 4:08PM on Mar 6th 2009 by Hypergrl

32. Duh - Just how dumb can a person be??? Walking through Security with crack cocaine. His I.Q. must be -10

Posted at 4:12PM on Mar 6th 2009 by Rachelle

33. Guess this idiot went to the Mike Vick school of flying.

Posted at 4:12PM on Mar 6th 2009 by anokie

34. Never knew TMZ readers were a bunch of racists. The bigger question is why they were checking pockets at the security checkpoint. As a white guy, I've sure never had my pocked checked. Not to mention, someone suggestion that sentencing for crack is lenient, needs to read that great (sarcasm) encyclopedia known as Wikipedia. IDIOT!

There has been some controversy over the disproportionate sentences mandated by the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for crack cocaine (versus powder cocaine) since 1987. Whereas it is a 5-year minimum sentence for trafficking 500g of powdered cocaine, the same sentence can be imposed for mere possession of 5 grams of crack cocaine, a 100:1 ratio. There is no mandatory minimum sentence for mere possession of powder cocaine.[20] The United States Sentencing Commission has recommended that this disparity be rectified and existing sentences reduced.[21] Some claim that this disparity amounts to institutional racism, as crack cocaine is more common in inner-city black communities, and powder cocaine in white suburban communities.[22][23] The Supreme Court ruled in Kimbrough v. United States (2007) that the Guidelines for cocaine are advisory only, and that a judge may consider the disparity between the Guidelines' treatment of crack and powder cocaine offenses when sentencing a defendant.

Posted at 4:13PM on Mar 6th 2009 by JT

35. I guess this is going to kill his chef aspirations.

*Just a sprinkle of white powder will not only bring out the taste but you will float.* Hehehehe.

Oh well. time to do the Humpty Dance!

Posted at 4:14PM on Mar 6th 2009 by A Real Housewife from Compton

36. Trying to be like Mike Vick and pass through security with dope. How bright some people are.

Posted at 4:18PM on Mar 6th 2009 by anokie

37. To OJ didn't do it #8. People like you should be shot!!! I agree with blkshephard to an extent. By the way blkshepherd, I hate to break it you, but blacks are by far NOT OUTNUMBERED, but that is no excuse for OJ didn't do it's comment. Race has nothing to do with why people get addicted to drugs, rape, kill, steal, don't have a job, or any of that stuff. If was race was like religion, and one could not determine such by looking at another, what would people bitch about then I wonder??

Posted at 4:18PM on Mar 6th 2009 by Brandi

38. JT You just printed the point. Crack is choice of black.

Posted at 4:22PM on Mar 6th 2009 by anokie

39. Posters 8, 12, 15, and 21 no amount of words can express the level of your ignorance. You posters have no business calling some out as being dumb. Racism is old and you four are letting the world know that your idiots (please do not breed) as a society we don't need anymore generations of your kind.

Posted at 4:23PM on Mar 6th 2009 by Hypergrl

40. what a shock, not! Just another drug bum.

Posted at 4:31PM on Mar 6th 2009 by janet

41. What a surprise!

Posted at 4:30PM on Mar 6th 2009 by ITUS

42. I guess smoking meth is cool because most white college students do it. Does anyone watch Intervention on A&E? 99% of the cases on there are about white people being on meth, crack, heroin and alcohol. But I guess no one pays attention to that. Kurt Cobain, Jim Belushi, Rush Limbaugh? I'm going to look out the window now to see if a man with a white hood is burning a cross in my yard for mentioning Rush. OOOOH! I'm so scared.

Posted at 5:52PM on Mar 6th 2009 by educatedone

43. More importantly.... He is not gonna mae it to his show here in Tulsa Oklahoma!!!! thats 15 dollars ill never get back. Of course I still get to watch Tone Loc!!!!

Man their careers are really starting to take off!!

Posted at 4:54PM on Mar 6th 2009 by casperufc

44. This doesn't surprise me at all...those lips, his outrageous temperment. Seriously, that was a crack move to think he was going to get through security with that substance. Dang, this is your ol' regular weed, this is hardcore (I don't condone drug use), but this is obviously habitual.

Posted at 4:44PM on Mar 6th 2009 by Blossom

45. More importantly.... He is not gonna mae it to his show here in Tulsa Oklahoma!!!! thats 15 dollars ill never get back. Of course I still get to watch Tone Loc!!!!

Man their careers are really starting to take off!!

Posted at 4:44PM on Mar 6th 2009 by casperufc

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