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Trick Daddy Arrested In Maimi On DUI & Cocaine Possession Charges

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January 11, 2020

Rapper Trick Daddy Arrested In Miami

Miami rapper Trick Daddy has once again found himself in legal troubles after being arrested in Miami on DUI (Driving Under Influence) and cocaine possession charges.

The arrest report has it that cops found TD asleep behind the wheel early Saturday morning, and asked him where he was going/where he was coming from.

The officer said he told them he’d come from a club, and had just dropped someone off.

Trick Daddy told them he’d had a few drinks hours ago. Cops reportedly saw him with bloodshot eyes and using slurred speech, so they conducted a field sobriety tests.

Rapper Trick Daddy Arrested In Miami

The responding officers suspected he was driving under the influence, so they placed him under arrest. The cops say they transported him to a nearby jail, where he allegedly refused to offer a breath sample to determine how much booze might’ve been in his system.The cops also said that when they conducted a search of Trick Daddy’s belongings, they claim they found a dollar bill with what they believed to be cocaine residue on the inside. He was ultimately booked for DUI and cocaine possession.

His bond was on the cocaine charge was set at $5,000, and for driving under the influence, another $1,000.

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Story via Miami Herald – Rapper Trick Daddy was arrested in Miami-Dade Saturday morning on a cocaine possession charge. According to the police report, a Miami-Dade officer responded to a report of a driver hitting signs and running red lights in a dark colored Range Rover in the area of Southwest 128th Avenue and 42nd Street in Miami. When the officer approached the driver’s side, he saw that the driver “appeared to be asleep behind the wheel.” Once he was awakened by a knock on the window, the man, identified by his driver’s license as Maurice Samuel Young — Trick Daddy’s birth name — told the officer he had left a club in Miami Gardens near Northwest 37th Avenue and 187th Street. The arrest affidavit said that Young told the officer he had had about five drinks hours earlier at the club and that he was dropping someone off and heading home. The report said Young had slurred speech, bloodshot, watery, glassy eyes and that the officer smelled alcohol on his breath. He agreed to a field sobriety test, which he could not successfully complete, police said. Young was taken to the Hammocks District Station on 142nd Avenue. While there, police found cocaine inside a dollar bill while Trick Daddy was putting his possessions in a plastic bag. Police also say he was wanted on a warrant for driving under the influence. Trick Daddy was born 45 years ago in Liberty City. He was booked into Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center around 7:30 a.m. Saturday. His bond was set at $5,000 on the cocaine possession charge and $1,000 on the driving under the influence charge.

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