Today Harlem rapper A$AP Rocky was arrested at LAX after arriving home from Barbados in connection with a shooting last November [click here if you missed that].
After obtaining a warrant LAPD used a battering ram to take open the gate at Rocky's house...
Rapper A$AP Rocky has been arrested for allegedly shooting an acquaintance after an argument broke out on a Hollywood street late last year.
Police arrested the performer, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, at Los Angeles International Airport Wednesday morning on charges of assault with a deadly weapon.
Officers were also seen outside of his LA home, smashing into the gate with a battering ram, before apparently raiding the property. Detectives seized multiple boxes of evidence from the house.
If convicted, Mayers could face up to one year jail time, a $1,000 fine and misdemeanor probation, per California Penal Code. If he received a felony assault with a deadly weapon conviction, Mayers could spend up to four years in state prison, be fined up to $10,000 and have mandatory probation.
ASAP Rocky neighbor tells me SWAT team w weapons drawn came to search rapper’s home near W. Hollywood this a.m.: “so excessive…it was like they came for Capone…I’m frankly offended by it…seems so inappropriate...he’s a great neighbor”
— Joe Coscarelli (@joecoscarelli) April 20, 2022
vid of battering ram/cop falling via TMZ pic.twitter.com/KpgfvTNGBt
