SHORT TAKES : Walter D Held on Drug Charges
Thomas Walter Anderson, a rap singer known as Walter D, is being held without bond on charges of conspiracy to sell cocaine, authorities said.
His manager and his producer also are being held on the charges.
Anderson, 27, has been trying to establish a solo career in Los Angeles. His single, “9mm (Millimeter)” appears on the Power Rap all-star album.
A bond hearing was scheduled today for Anderson; his manager, Reginald Lamont Jones, 27, of Nashville; his producer, Victor Roy Wingo, 25, of Los Angeles, and Eric Dwayne Bratton, 25, a Los Angeles musician. They were each charged with the one conspiracy count after a raid Saturday.
Police confiscated a kilogram of cocaine, a .44-caliber magnum pistol and about $53,000 in cash in two rooms at separate hotels, Sgt. J. D. Jones said. Police said the group has been under investigation for about a month. The cocaine has an estimated wholesale value of $30,000, police said.
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