Rapper Jim Jones Arrested After Wild Brawl in CT Casino
- Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:01pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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(AP) Rapper Jim Jones was arrested and charged with assaulting a Connecticut state trooper in a brawl at the Foxwoods Resort Casino, police said Saturday.
The hip-hop artist and actor, whose “We Fly High” was one of 2007′s top-selling rap tracks, was charged with assault on a police officer and breach of peace, state police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance said. Vance said he was not certain how the altercation Friday night began.
Jones said on Twitter that he posted $40,000 in bond, adding that he “had a ball” while in custody.
An attorney who has represented Jones in the past did not immediately respond to a message Saturday seeking comment.
In October, Jones pleaded guilty to driving his Bentley with a suspended license in New York and was fined $200.
In 2009, he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge for punching one of R&B star Ne-Yo’s friends in a dust-up at a Louis Vuitton boutique. He was sentenced to time served — the few hours he was in custody after turning himself in to police.
The rapper, born Joseph Jones, is one of the Diplomats, a Harlem-based rap crew. Besides “We Fly High,“ his hits include ”Pop Champagne.” He released a new album, “Capo,” in April.
He also has a T-shirt line and starred in 2009′s “Hip-Hop Monologues: Inside the Life and Mind of Jim Jones,” a play about his life on the road and on the streets.
Video of the arrest and Jones’s attempted escape from security (Warning: Strong Language):
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Comments (45)
rukdnme13
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 10:48amI’m thinking he might be one of the greatest talents of our time!!!!!! Sarcasm!
Report Post »micknh
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 10:44am“BLACK MAN CAN”T GETTA BREAK!”……Nice takedown..now move along…nuttin to see here….LOL…cha-ching!…thank you very much.
Report Post »B-Neil
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:57amFree publicity and status growth. Now he be good gangster. Ain’t his heritage so proud??
Report Post »vampiric aristocracy
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 1:49pmdmn damn damn…..
Report Post »GMI
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:45amDictionary. Aspiring rapper, no job, not gonna get a job, drawing govt checks.
Report Post »jungle J
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:37amthey should have put a round in him….keep leaving the cages open and this is what animals do.
Report Post »Magyar
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:01amWhy even waste the space to report this?…. @sndrman got it right—can’t spell RAP without CRAP! Well said!
Report Post »Izzy2626
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 7:20amHis hats on crooked…..wonder if he knows?
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:31amits a ***** thang.
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:38amand the young white girls would line up by the thousands to have his baby.
MTV told them that is is a good thing to do, and public school showed them that white people are to blame, so doing so will ease the concience a little.
Report Post »JustJason
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 2:27pmso true… women always accept the invader or none of us would be here.
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 4:12pmwhite-women will sleep with the Devil if makes daddy mad…Obey the 5th commandment if you want to live long in the land the Lord gave you…Out breed em…Out vote em…and stop feeling sorry for em…they have a whole continent for themselves
Report Post »sndrman
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 7:12ami know why the nike shoe riot happened someone said hey they is just giving the right foot and you gotta pay extra for the left foot….. all rappers and their supporters buy their nike one foot at a time…….wonder if the prez…. is a fan of nike?and when rapers come to white house do they bring him a pair of nikes? questions that keep me awake at nights……….i wish i worked for huffington post so i could over hear said stuff or at least i caould say i over heard it………….
Report Post »sndrman
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 7:03amlike i always say you can’t spell C-R-A-P without rap…enough said,and who doe she think he is vanilla ice? you know cause he be chillin
Report Post »The American People
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 2:13amThey took way too long slamming his face into the floor and getting control of him. Stun him, cuff him and drag that human garbage out of the building, “COPS”.
Report Post »MEANS2RESIST
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 2:48amSeems like lately, all the thugs I’ve been hearing about as having run-ins with the law have been “aspiring rappers”. Keep up the good work boys, you’re gonna hit it big one day…..
Report Post »discus02
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 12:47amWow he has some Rap Sheet!
Report Post »omgfolks
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 12:20amA certain segment of America’s society always seem to resort to violence as a mean of to settle a dispute. Of course these ignorant morons think that because they can threaten and intimidate they will get there way, and for the moment they do, but in the long run the consequences are far more reaching than their childish school yard tantrum. I hope they throw the book a this punk thug, maybe after 5-10 in the slammer, fines totaling his net worth and he comes out broke and homeless he will see that violence does not pay.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:59pmTo bad he did not receive the same treatment the guy in a later article got for trying to rob a bar.
Report Post »The American People
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 2:10amI agree, one guy in the video, I think, said “he hit my girl…..“ apparently the ”rapper” shoved into the guys girlfriend while he was running from the police like a damn child. That’s how cowards work. You guys all realize that???? On the Titanic, its women and children first, but with most “hardcore” street thugs, the cowards just shove down women when they are scared, I wouldn’t have been too suprised if he had stepped on a child. Honorless cowards these “rappers”. If he had run into my girlfriend the cops would have been pulling me off of what was left of his face instead of playing tag with him all over the place.
Report Post »waspanglosaxon
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:51pmAin‘t ’diversity’ wonderful?
Report Post »MEANS2RESIST
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 2:45amYo…“We Fly High”…sounds like a classic that has made it big in the ghetto. Jim Jones be makin some good $ off those catchy tunes of the hood….
Report Post »I Fly Low
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:02pmYou can take them out of the jungle, give them a Bentley,but ya can’t domesticate them in only 100 years.
Report Post »no1jyd
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:00pmCannot wear man clothes man jewelry has to pose like a whats up my a$# Has to wear hat sideways so it will not get in the way of pleasuring his cellmate. Yep he is ready for prison. lol
Report Post »Delta D-5-3
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:22pmWhat do ya know, another hip hop idiot with money making himself look like as a**. These buffons couldn‘t keep a job at McDonalds if there weren’t enough people willing to shell out good $$$ for there racist trash they call music. Future generations will look back at these idiots and ask “what did there mama’s smoke to have created something so laughable”, LOL.
Report Post »LIBS-ARE-DINGLEHEADS
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:00pm….nothing a strafe of an Uzi wouldn’t cure……or wipe out…..
Report Post »oriondma05
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 10:43pmWere any Nike sneakers be sold on the premises?
Report Post »Laus Deo
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 10:38pmHe didn’t tweet whose “ball” he had, or whether it was the left or right. What a DB.
Report Post »OlefromMN
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 10:23pmI must be from a different generation, but anybody that follows a guy named Jim Jones really needs to think about their future.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 10:52pmI was thinking the same thing. So, does he run off to Jonestown, Guyana and renew his flock and possibly develop a new Kool-Aid flavor?
Report Post »I was at Bragg when the original incident happened and the 44th Med Bde had to go down there to clean up all of the bodies. Really nice choice for a musical name!
Delta D-5-3
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:30pmThey come up with these names for shock value. Of course most of his followers don’t have enough of an education to know who Jim Jones was. Hell, when they riot over a pair of SNEAKERS, then you have to know the geanpool isn’t top notch, LOL. But hey, when everything is given to you from the gobment, then they really can’t complain to much I guess. Take away the EBT cards, welfare, and section 8, and all the other “free” things that WE PAY FOR, well then you will have some problems……….
Report Post »2theADDLED
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 12:13amI wonder ! I wonder how many of these rappers are on assistance ?
Report Post »UBETHECHANGE
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 10:02pmWho? Who cares, you reap what you sow rapper boy!
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 10:01pmI thought he died from koolaid?
Report Post »Warphead
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:56pmUncivilized
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 10:04pmUgh…..I must be getting old and cranky, because every time I see one of these idiots that insists on wearing his hat sideways, I just want to donkey punch them.
Report Post »Warphead
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:50pmSeriously, What else would you expect from this.
Report Post »Warphead
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:50pmDid you expect anything other.
Report Post »4booty
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 10:20amIsnt he part of the 1%? Oh yeah,but they aren’t mad at THIS GUY?
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