Tuesday, November 29, 2011

The "Hip Hop Voice Of The Street Pirate" Lives Up To Their Title



BATON ROUGE, La. — A Baton Rouge rapper known as "Lil Boosie" has been sentenced to eight years in prison following his guilty plea to drug charges.The 29-year-old rapper's real name is Torrence Hatch. He pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to smuggle codeine, marijuana and ecstasy into two state prisons. They were the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola and Dixon Correctional Institute in Jackson, La.
Assistant District Attorney Dana Cummings says Hatch was serving a prison term for a separate conviction for marijuana possession when he smuggled the drugs with help from a prison guard.
State District Judge Mike Erwin in Baton Rouge sentenced him to the new prison term.
Hatch also faces a first-degree murder charge in the 2009 death of Terry Boyd. The trial is scheduled to start April 30.
A bullet hole is shown in a window of a car at a liquor store parking lot in Oakland, Calif., Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011 after a shooting. A hail of gunfire along an Oakland street left eight people wounded, including a 1-year-old boy and a woman who authorities say were hospitalized in critical condition. The gunfire broke out Monday evening in a liquor store parking lot after a crowd had gathered, police said
A liquor store is shown in Oakland, Calif., Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011 after a shooting. A hail of gunfire along an Oakland street left eight people wounded, including a 1-year-old boy and a woman who authorities say were hospitalized in critical condition. The gunfire broke out Monday evening in a liquor store parking lot after a crowd had gathered, police said. 


Blood is shown at a liquor store parking lot in Oakland, Calif., Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011 after a shooting. A hail of gunfire along an Oakland street left eight people wounded, including a 1-year-old boy and a woman who authorities say were hospitalized in critical condition. The gunfire broke out Monday evening in a liquor store parking lot after a crowd had gathered, police said.

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