R&B singer Trey Songz was arrested in Springfield, MA early Sunday (Nov 4) along with several members of his entourage following a shooting outside a local venue. Songz was charged with behaving as a disorderly person and resisting arrest. The singer, born Tremaine Neverson, was released after posting $500 bond. The shooting took place in the parking lot of The Hippodrome, where Songz performed Saturday evening.

“Our disorderly person charge can involve several different things including the use of certain language, failure to do what an officer asks,” Slepchuck told AllHipHop.com. “[Neverson] was interfering with an active crime scene involving a victim.”

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A DeKalb, Georgia resident has been arrested and charged with vandalizing a statue of Tupac Shakur at the arts centre named after the iconic rapper. According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, 43 year-old Kenneth Anthony Wilson was charged late last week with second-degree criminal damage to property, a felony. Wilson is currently being held in a DeKalb jail under $1,500 bond. Dekalb police spokeswoman Mekka Parish said authorities have no reason to believe the crime was racially motivated. Wilson is an African-American. Initial reports of the incident from the centre’s publicist said a noose was hung around the neck of the statue although police maintain it was a cross on a string.

JIVE Records has issued a statement denying their artist T-Pain was arrested Nov. 2 in Tallahassee, Florida for outstanding warrants. According to WCTV, 24-year-old Faheem Najm (T-Pain) was arrested on outstanding warrants for a non moving traffic violation and driving while license suspended. But, T-Pain’s label JIVE has released a statement denying these allegations.

“T-Pain was given a few traffic tickets several years ago for minor infractions [a speeding ticket, running a stop sign, failure to pay]” a representative for Jive said. “These were mistakes that Pain made as a young man that just received his driver’s license. He did not have the money nor the knowledge at the time to take care of them.”

The JIVE rep says T-Pain wasn’t arrested and he voluntarily turned himself in.

“There was no bail and he was released on his own recognizance within a few hours…He will not miss any scheduled engagements” said the JIVE rep.

T-Pain released his sophomore album “Ephinany,” earlier this year featuring the hit single “Buy You A Drank.” - Source

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