Wiz Khalifa ran into more legal problems in North Carolina after a Winston-Salem police officer noticed the smell of marijuana coming from the rapper’s tour bus Tuesday night.
Khalifa, 24, whose real name is Cameron Jibril Thomaz, performed Tuesday night before about 2,000 people at the Joel Coliseum.
Officer J.C. Renew of the Winston-Salem Police Department said in the search warrant that he had been assigned to the parking lot area of the Joel Coliseum where his job was to look out for people who might be selling or taking illegal drugs.
At 9:15 p.m., Renew approached Khalifa’s tour bus and “detected a strong odor of burnt or burning marijuana coming from the bus,” the search warrant said. No one was around the bus or within 40 feet of the bus, but Renew saw a man standing at the door of the bus. Renew asked the man to open the door, and when the door was opened, the smell got stronger, the search warrant said.
According to the search warrant, Renew seized a quantity of marijuana and other drug paraphernalia.
Khalifa was charged with possession of one-half ounce of marijuana or less. Lt. Tom Stevenson of the Winston-Salem Police Department declined to say how much marijuana police seized or what kind of other drug paraphernalia was found on the tour bus. He said that 18 to 19 people who either attended the concert or were part of Khalifa’s entourage were cited for marijuana possession.
One person was cited for felony possession of ecstasy, he said.
The incident is the second time in a week that Khalifa was cited for marijuana possession. The Nashville Tennessean reports that the rapper was charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession after hotel staff received complaints about marijuana use in his hotel room.
In November 2010, Khalifa was arrested and charged with trafficking marijuana after performing at East Carolina University. ECU Police initially entered Wiz Khalifa’s bus after detecting a marijuana smell.
The bust yielded more than 60 grams of the drug.
“Due to that strong smell of odor of marijuana an investigation ensued in which, at the end of the concert, resulted in Wiz Khalifa as well as nine of his band members to be arrested for possession of marijuana,” ECU Police Chief Dawn Tevepaugh said.
A court date on the Winston-Salem case is set for July 27.
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