Juelz Santana

  • 28 October 2005

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Rapper Juelz Santana Sentenced To 27 Months In Prison

By Ed Biggs in Music / Festivals on 20 December 2018

Juelz Santana

Santana pleaded guilty to drug and gun charges back in August.

American rap star Juelz Santana has been sentenced to over two and a half years in prison for attempting to smuggle drugs and a gun on board an aircraft in New York.

Santana – real name LaRon James, aged 36 – was sentenced Wednesday (December 19th) to 27 months in prison, after pleading guilty back in August to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and carrying a weapon on an aircraft, according to Rolling Stone.

In March this year, he was stopped by security officers at Newark Airport in New Jersey as he tried to board a flight to San Francisco, after a loaded .38-caliber handgun and “a controlled dangerous substance”, believed to be non-prescription oxycodone pills, were found in his carry-on bag. He initially fled the airport in a taxi, leaving his bags behind, but handed himself in two days later.

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Juelz Santana Wednesday 17th October 2007 The 2nd Annual Stay-In-School concert held at the Manhattan Centre - Arrivals New York City, USA