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Ol' Dirty Bastard has been arrested yet again

MTV.COM

Ol' Dirty Bastard has been arrested yet again after police claim they found crack cocaine in the rapper's car. According to police, the rapper (real name Russell Jones) was arrested at approximately 2 a.m. on Monday morning in the Bushwick area of Brooklyn, New York City when police noticed that the Range Rover he was driving had no license plates. When police asked him to produce license and registration, police say he could not and proceeded to give them the name Robert Diggs (which happens to be the real name of the Wu-Tang Clan's Rza). When the rapper finally provided the police with his real name, they found that he had six suspensions on his license as well as one count of failure to pay child support. Police then say that the searched O.D.B.'s car and found three envelopes of crack. O.D.B., who had recently gone into the studio to work on his upcoming album "Nigga Please," was in police custody at press time, but had not been formally charged.

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This story circulated on the newsgroup alt.rap and reached the archive on March 23, 1999. It is reproduced as posted — headlines, typos and all. Original source, as credited in the post: Mtv.Com.