Weapons Charges Filed Against Rapper, Relative

Prosecutors filed felony charges against a founding member of the Grammy-winning rap group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and a house guest Monday in the alleged firing of a shotgun and possession of explosives on the Fourth of July.

Stanley “Flesh-N-Bone” Howse, 24, was also charged with possessing an unregistered assault weapon--an AK-47--found inside his rented house in Chatsworth by police who were summoned about 1 a.m. Friday by neighbors who reported hearing gunshots, Deputy Dist. Atty. Robert F. Foltz Jr. said.

Authorities continue to investigate the source of several other weapons seized from the house, including a shotgun reported stolen from a pawnshop during the 1992 riots, Foltz said.

Howse and his brother-in-law, Jamar Tarik Cole, 19, spent the weekend in custody at the Devonshire police station. The rapper was freed on $500,000 bond.