WU-TANG CLAN RAPPER ARRESTED

NEW YORK (AP) Trouble-prone rapper ODB was arrested Monday after
police allegedly found three small containers of crack cocaine on him
during a traffic stop in Brooklyn.

The Wu-Tang Clan rapper, whose real name is Russell Jones, was stopped
by officers who saw a 1996 Range Rover without license plates,
double-parked.

The driver did not have a license or registration, police said. When
Jones, 30, gave his name, a record check revealed he had a suspended
license and was wanted for failure to pay child support leading to a
search that turned up the drugs, Lt. Dennis Cirillo said.

Jones was in custody awaiting arraignment on misdemeanor drug charges.
His attorney, Peter Frankell, did not immediately return calls for
comment.

Last month, a Brooklyn grand jury decided Jones would not face
attempted murder charges stemming from an encounter with officers who
stopped Jones' car for allegedly not having its lights on. The
officers said that when they approached the driver's window two shots
were fired, and they shot back. No gun was found in the car.

Jones was convicted of second-degree assault in New York in
1993.

He was arrested last month in Los Angeles when he parked in a
no-parking zone and police found he was wearing a bulletproof vest. He
has pleaded innocent to violating a law banning felons from wearing
body armor.

In addition to facing shoplifting charges in Virginia, he is accused
in Los Angeles of threatening to kill the mother of his 1-year-old
child and making death threats to guards at a nightclub.