According to the Daily Times, Sigel pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a misdemeanor charge of illegally possessing Percocet, which landed him a county prison sentence of six-to-23 months. Sigel, 39, has been in prison since August, following a traffic stop in which police found him in possession of prescription drugs. Two weeks before he was slated to being a two-year prison run on tax evasion charges, Sigel was arrested on August 29 after police observed the tan Ford Fusion he was riding in following another vehicle too closely and swerving out of its lane.
While Sigel was not driving, a search of the car turned up several prescription bottles and a small amount of pot on the driver. When officers searched the rapper, who was asleep when the car was pulled over, they found nearly $4,600 in cash, a bottle of codeine syrup with the label scratched off and several unidentified prescription pills wrapped in plastic bag inside a cigarette pack. (Sigel claimed he won the cash at a casino.)
Police later found a loaded .38 caliber handgun in the car and since both men are convicted felons who are prohibited from possessing firearms, they were each arraigned on charges of drug possession, possession with intent to deliver, persons not to possess firearms and firearms not to be carried without a license and conspiracy. Sigel had previously spent time in prison on a federal firearms charge. Read the rest.
