Rapper Lil Wayne arrested in Boise on felony warrant

<p>Hip-hop star Lil Wayne was arrested on a felony warrant after performing in Boise, the Ada County Sheriff's office said Saturday.</p><p>Lil Wayne, whose real name is Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr., was arrested after his Friday concert at Qwest Arena and booked into the Ada County Jail on a felony fugitive to Idaho charge, The Idaho Statesman reported. Carter is wanted on a felony warrant from Fulton County, Georgia, to face a charge of possession of a controlled substance, Ada County jail officials said.</p><p>After his arrest, the jail was bombarded with dozens of angry phone calls from fans, concert promoters and others, said a jail deputy who didn't want her name to be used. Because he was arrested on a felony fugitive warrant, he was not eligible for bond. Carter is scheduled to be formally charged in court on Tuesday, the deputy said, and will be asked then if he plans to waive his extradition to Georgia.</p><p>"Apparently he has a concert this evening in about four hours, and he's missing it because he's not bondable," the deputy said Saturday afternoon. "Every other phone call that we've picked up have been about him _ people who have tickets wanting to know where his concert will be, people calling to see if it's true that he's incarcerated."</p><p>An e-mail to Carter's publicist at Universal Music Group was not immediately returned. Carter has had previous brushes with the law, including a 2005 drug arrest in Atlanta.</p><p>Carter's "Tha Carter II" album released in 2005 has sold about 2 million copies worldwide. He recently was voted "Hottest MC in the Game" by a panel at MTV.</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x2dea384)</p>

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