“Hot in Herre” rapper Nelly is not feeling the hearth from Missouri prosecutors three months after he was arrested on ecstasy possession expenses.
The Times confirmed Wednesday that the St. Louis County Prosecutor’s Office is not going to cost the Grammy-winning musician. “We don’t consider the info on this case justify issuing expenses,” a spokesperson instructed the Times in a press release.
Scott Rosenblum, legal professional for Nelly (actual identify Cornell Iral Haynes Jr.), in a press release to the Times thanked Missouri U.S. Attorney Wesley Bell and his workplace “for conducting an intensive investigation and reaching what we consider is the end result applicable”.
The 50-year-old rapper, additionally recognized for the hits “Dilemma” and “Ride Wit Me,” was arrested Aug. 7 in his house state at a St. Louis-area on line casino the place he was allegedly carrying 4 ecstasy capsules. He was detained and launched by police in Maryland Heights, a metropolis northwest of St. Louis. At the time, the Missouri State Highway Patrol database additionally listed a quotation for working a automobile with out correct proof of insurance coverage. Nelly initially obtained this quotation in June 2018 in Maryland Heights. A decide issued a warrant in December 2023 and it remained pending.
Rosenblum stated in August that his shopper had received a number of on line casino jackpots and when he tried to gather them, the officer who allegedly oversaw the transaction “unnecessarily” initiated a warrant search.
Once he discovered the excellent warrant, the officer cuffed Nelly’s palms behind his again and, Rosenblum stated, “felt obligated” to “parade him across the on line casino in entrance of different patrons.” He additionally stated on the time that the officer had no believable trigger to justify the search and expressed confidence that the case would “go nowhere.”
Nelly evaded expenses slightly below three months after he and singer Ashanti welcomed a child boy, Kareem Kenkaide. After relationship on and off for 11 years after which splitting in 2013, the “Body on Me” collaborators rekindled their romance in September 2023.
The musicians secretly married in December 2023, based on a Missouri database.
“I’ve been ready to be a mother for a very long time now, however nothing can put together me for EVERYTHING that motherhood brings!” Ashanti wrote in August Instagramincluding, “I’m so happy with my physique for giving me my child, child, child, child, boy.”
Nelly shares two grownup kids – Chanelle and Cornell Haynes III – with ex-girlfriend Channetta Valentine. He additionally adopted his late sister Jackie’s two kids after she died of leukemia in 2005.
“Having kids is at all times a blessing and seeing how wonderful Ashanti is as a mom is wonderful,” she stated in a press release shared with The Times in August.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
