Rapper Jay Rock arrested in L.A. on suspicion of illegal firearm possession

Grammy Award-winning rapper Jay Rock was arrested Thursday evening adjacent the Watts nationalist lodging analyzable wherever helium grew up and booked connected suspicion of amerciable firearm possession, authorities said.

The 39-year-old rapper, whose ineligible sanction is Johnny Reed McKinzie, was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department astatine 5:20 p.m. successful the 13000 artifact of East 115th Street, according to a section spokesperson.

The spokesperson said helium was booked connected suspicion of violating California Penal Code Section 29800(a)(1), which prohibits radical with anterior felony convictions, progressive felony warrants oregon definite misdemeanor convictions from possessing a firearm. It is simply a felony complaint punishable by up to 3 years successful jail.

Information connected his adjacent tribunal quality was not instantly available.

McKinzie was initially arrested successful the Nickerson Gardens nationalist lodging flat analyzable connected suspicion of trespassing and drinking successful public, constabulary sources told NBC4. He ran from his conveyance and constabulary past recovered a firearm inside, the quality presumption reported.

In a video of the incidental shared connected societal media, the rapper tin beryllium heard saying, “You don’t adjacent cognize what I was drinking.”

McKinzie won a Grammy for rap show successful 2019 for the opus “King’s Dead,” alongside Kendrick Lamar, Future and James Blake. In May of that year, helium was awarded the cardinal to his hometown of Watts by then-L.A. City Councilmember Joe Buscaino.

During the ceremony, Buscaino declared May 24 “Jay Rock Day” and said McKinzie had “contributed greatly to the occurrence of aboriginal generations by giving back,” according to reporting by the vigor presumption Power 106.