{"id":117176,"date":"2025-08-04T03:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T03:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/117176\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T03:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T03:18:11","slug":"chicago-illinois-born-rapper-soulja-boy-arrested-on-weapons-charge-during-traffic-stop-in-fairfax-district-los-angeles-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/117176\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago, Illinois-born rapper Soulja Boy arrested on weapons charge during traffic stop in Fairfax District: Los Angeles police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LOS ANGELES &#8212; The Chicago-born rapper Soulja Boy was arrested early Sunday in Los Angeles on suspicion of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Few details were immediately available about the arrest, which Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson said occurred about 2:30 a.m. during a traffic stop in the Fairfax District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Soulja Boy, 35, whose real name is Deandre Cortez Way, was booked into jail in the LAPD&#8217;s Wilshire Division on suspicion of a felony, the agency said.<\/p>\n<p>A jury has ordered Soulja Boy to pay $235,900 in punitive damages to a woman who alleged the rapper yelled profanities, kicked her, stomped on her stomach and bashed her head with a large gun during a party she attended at his Malibu home in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In April 2023, a jury <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/soulja-boy-punitive-damages-santa-monica-superior-court-deandre-cortez-way\/13189752\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ordered the &#8220;Crank That&#8221; singer<\/a> to pay $235,900 in punitive damages to a woman who alleged that the rapper yelled profanities, kicked her, stomped on her stomach and bashed her head with a large gun during a party she attended at his Malibu home in 2019. The amount was the same that the panel had given the woman a week earlier in compensatory damages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In December 2016, Soulja Boy was <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/videoClip\/1658798\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arrested at his Hollywood Hills home<\/a>, where a gun was found by officers, the LAPD said. The rapper was on probation at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES &#8212; The Chicago-born rapper Soulja Boy was arrested early Sunday in Los Angeles on suspicion of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":117177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[73346,1582,276,73345,73341,73344,2961,224,5337,73339,73338,73337,73342,73343,73340],"class_list":{"0":"post-117176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-73346","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-deandre-cortez-way","12":"tag-did-soulja-boy-get-arrested","13":"tag-fairfax-district","14":"tag-la","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-soulja-boy","18":"tag-soulja-boy-arrest","19":"tag-soulja-boy-arrested","20":"tag-soulja-boy-felony","21":"tag-soulja-boy-jail","22":"tag-soulja-boy-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114968336998643556","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}