RAPPER and reality TV star Nelly is facing felony drug
charges after being arrested in Tennessee.
Tennessee
Highway Patrol said in a news release that Nelly, whose real name is Cornell
Haynes, was pulled over about 9:20am because the bus he was riding in failed to
display a U.S. Department of Transportation and International Fuel Tax
Association sticker.
According to the
release troopers smelled marijuana when they reached the bus.
When troopers
searched the bus, they found five rocks that tested positive for meth, as well
as a small amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
Troopers also
say they found numerous handguns.
The St. Louis
native is facing charges of felony possession of drugs, simple possession of
marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Nelly, 40, was
taken to the Putnam County Jail.
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