Snoop Dogg charged with two felonies
Rapper-actor Snoop Dogg was charged Tuesday with gun possession by a convicted felon and a marijuana-related drug charge, prosecutors said.
The 35-year-old Dogg, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, is scheduled to be arraigned on the two felony counts Wednesday morning in Superior Court in Pasadena, said Los Angeles County district attorney’s office spokeswoman Jane Robison.
The charges stem from Dogg’s arrest Oct. 26 at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank on suspicion of transportation of a controlled substance. Burbank police later executed a search warrant at the rapper’s home in Diamond Bar, where they discovered the gun. He was arrested again Nov. 28, just after he finished taping an appearance on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.”
If convicted on both charges, Dogg faces as many as four years in state prison. He was previously convicted in 1990 of felony drug possession and possession for sale, prosecutors said.
The rapper and actor also was charged with possession of a deadly weapon at John Wayne Airport in September, when a collapsible police baton was found in his computer bag. That case is pending.
In February 1996, Dogg and his bodyguard, McKinley Lee, were acquitted of murder charges in the August 1993 shooting death of a young man in a Palms park.
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