Lil Baby has been arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada for allegedly carrying a concealed weapon without a permit.
The rapper was arrested on Monday (August 26) and later taken into custody at the Clark County Detention Center where he was held on a $5,000 bail £3,808, TMZ have reported.
The entertainment news outlet has claimed that Lil Baby, real name Dominique Armani Jones, was allegedly seen on video being passed a gun inside the Encore hotel on the Vegas strip.
The rapper’s attorneys, Drew Findling and David Chesnoff, have since issued a statement confirming the he has been released. They are also insisting that he held a valid permit for carrying a concealed weapon in his home state of Georgia, and say they are “actively investigating” the circumstances that led to the arrest.
Lil Baby has not been formally charged with the crime, which is a felony in Nevada, and was released from custody after posting bond, court records show. He is due in court in Las Vegas on October 1, according to AP.
Last year, a man was wounded and taken to hospital after a shooting at a Lil Baby show in Memphis. A month later, the Memphis Police Department confirmed that a man had been arrested in connection with the incident.
Kevin Young, 22, was arrested on charges including reckless endangerment and unlawful possession of weapons and drugs at a home in Memphis.
Lil Baby recently took part in The Grammys’ star-studded celebration of hip-hop in honour of the 50th anniversary of the genre.
In 2022, the Atlanta rapper released his third studio album, ‘It’s Only Me’. In a three-star review, NME wrote: “If the trimmings were removed from ‘It’s Only Me’, it might rival his previous releases – instead it’s a few notches shy of greatness.”
Meanwhile, a documentary about Jones’ career, titled Untrapped: The Story Of Lil Baby, came out that same year. In a four-star review of it, NME’s Luke Morgan Britton wrote: “The doc succeeds in bringing us closer to the rapper than we’ve ever been before, mapping out Baby’s journey from inner-city poverty and teen years spent “hustling” on the streets to his eventual journey to rap’s top tier and ongoing plight for social change.”
