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Rapper Beanie Sigel Back In Court |
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Thursday, 22 February 2007 |
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 A judge extended Beanie Sigel's supervised release after the rapper was
questioned in federal court about a positive drug test and association
with convicted felons.
Sigel was sentenced in October 2004 to 12 months
and a day, plus two years of supervised release, on gun and drug
charges.
The U.S. Probation Office asked for a hearing
yesterday (Feb. 21) to change his supervised release status, saying he
failed to notify his probation officer that he had been stopped and
questioned by police on Aug. 20.
He was with several people, at least
one of them a convicted felon, at the time, police said.
Sigel also tested positive for codeine and morphine in a drug test in December.
The 32-year-old rapper, whose real name is Dwight
Grant, told U.S. District Court Judge R. Barclay Surrick that he had
been given a prescription by his doctor three days before a scheduled
drug test.
Sigel's attorney, Fortunato Perri Jr., provided
Surrick and Assistant U.S. Attorney Curtis Douglas with a copy of a
prescription and a letter signed by a doctor.
Surrick sentenced Sigel to an additional six months of supervised
release. He told Sigel he would have to get the situation "under
control or otherwise I'm going to have to take action you're not going
to appreciate."
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