{"id":117320,"date":"2025-08-04T04:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T04:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/117320\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T04:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T04:36:11","slug":"soulja-boy-arrested-on-firearm-possession-charges-during-la-traffic-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/117320\/","title":{"rendered":"Soulja Boy arrested on firearm possession charges during LA traffic stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rapper Soulja Boy was arrested early Sunday morning after\u00a0a night out celebrating his birthday when\u00a0police found a firearm in a vehicle during a traffic stop in Los Angeles, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old artist, whose real name is DeAndre Cortez Way, was a passenger in a vehicle cops pulled over around 2:30 a.m. in Melrose, the Los Angeles Police Department told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/rapper-soulja-boy-arrest-melrose\/3758836\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBC Los Angeles.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Officers spotted a gun inside the vehicle and later arrested Way on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a firearm, police said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36729509\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2023-held-microsoft-theater-l-109188795.jpg\" alt=\"Soulja Boy at the BET Awards 2023.\" class=\"wp-image-36729509\"  \/>Rapper Soulja Boy was arrested early Sunday morning on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Image Press Agency\/NurPhoto\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not yet clear why the car was stopped.<\/p>\n<p>Way was out late celebrating his birthday at Poppy, a club in West Hollywood, on Saturday night before his arrest, according to Instagram posts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t need no security,\u201d he posted in a video of himself on the crowded club dance floor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.66699219;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36729510\" width=\"394\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025-showing-crowd-still-all-109188435.jpg\" alt=\"Soulja Boy performing at Summer Smash.\" class=\"wp-image-36729510\"  \/>The 35-year-old artist, whose real name is DeAndre Cortez Way, was a passenger in a vehicle cops pulled over around 2:30 a.m. in Melrose. Amanda Jones\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>The rapper had turned 35, days earlier\u00a0on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Way was previously arrested for carrying a\u00a0loaded gun during a traffic stop in January 2014,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2014\/01\/22\/soulja-boy-arrested-possession-of-a-loaded-weapon-gun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TMZ reported at the time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, the\u00a0\u201cCrank That\u201d singer was also booked during a traffic stop in Georgia, where marijuana, cash, and guns were found in a car he was riding in. He was booked on felony charges alongside\u00a0four others,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/blogs\/ministry-of-gossip\/story\/2011-10-18\/soulja-boy-arrested-on-felony-drug-weapons-charges-bail-is-10k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Los Angeles Times previously reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In April, a jury slapped\u00a0<strong>him<\/strong>\u00a0with a $4.25 million verdict for sexual assault claims waged by a woman he used to live with,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/jury-finds-soulja-boy-liable-to-tune-of-4-million-in-sexual-assault-civil-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to Courthouse News.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not immediately known if the musician has been released or has retained legal representation.<\/p>\n<p>The LAPD did not respond to the Post\u2019s request for comment by the time of publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rapper Soulja Boy was arrested early Sunday morning after\u00a0a night out celebrating his birthday when\u00a0police found a firearm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":117321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[11307,1582,276,185,64334,171,42423,2961,224,5337,5342,73339,1154],"class_list":{"0":"post-117320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-arrests","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-celebrity-arrests","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-guns","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-rappers","19":"tag-soulja-boy","20":"tag-us-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114968644191836905","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117320","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=117320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}