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akon He was arrested last week in DeKalb County, Georgia, according to police records.
The “Locked Up” singer, whose real name is Aliyoune Thiam, was arrested by the Chamblee Police Department Friday morning and released from jail after six hours. The singer’s mugshot shows him in a black hoodie with a stone face.
Authorities arrested Akon when Flock security cameras alerted them that a car registered to someone with an out-of-county arrest warrant was at Tint World, an auto styling center, where he left his car. The CPD arrest report states that the 52-year-old singer was calm during the arrest and told officers he was aware of his outstanding warrants. Independent.
According to an incident report, Akon was wanted in Roswell, Georgia following an incident two months earlier, when police learned he was driving with a suspended license.
The Roswell Police Department said the rapper got into trouble in September when police found him stranded on the road with a dead battery. tesla cybertruck His car was towed, and then officers learned that his license was suspended for failure to appear in January 2023, Police issued him a citation, took his license, and confiscated an illegal vape that was in the center console of his car at the time,
Akon has not yet commented publicly on his arrest. A representative of the artist said Independent Said in a statement that the arrest should never have happened.
“The suspended license should never have been put forward due to a clerical issue, it was paid for but was not properly entered into the system. This will soon be rectified in the courts in early December,” the spokesperson said.
The singer is currently on tour in India and has posted on social media as usual since his arrest, even sharing a video on Wednesday morning, captioned, “It’s a beautiful day.”
The Grammy-nominated singer rose to fame in the early 2000s with his song “Locked Up.” He is also known for his hits “Smack That,” “Lonely,” and “I Wanna Love You.”
After becoming famous, Akon raised eyebrows by publicly claiming in several interviews that he was a convicted felon and was once the leader of a car theft gang. However, a 2008 report smoking gun It was revealed that the singer had fictionalized his criminal past. Although he had been arrested six times before, he was convicted of only one crime: he pleaded guilty to gun possession in New Jersey in 1998, after which he was released with three years’ probation.
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Akon recently made headlines when his wife Tomeka Thiam filed for divorce in September after 28 years of marriage. The father of nine is seeking joint legal custody and sole physical custody of his 17-year-old daughter, as well as spousal support.