{"id":10700,"date":"2011-10-17T16:22:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T20:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10700"},"modified":"2011-10-17T15:54:15","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T19:54:15","slug":"big-boi-of-outkast-settles-drug-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10700","title":{"rendered":"Big Boi Of Outkast Settles Drug Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MIAMI<\/strong> &#8212; Grammy-winning <strong>OutKast<\/strong> rapper <strong>Big Boi<\/strong> has reached a deal on drug charges that allows him to avoid jail time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Big Boi<\/strong> appeared in a Miami courtroom Thursday as prosecutors outlined the deal that includes three months of drug testing, community service and $2,000 in donations to charities.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old rapper&#8217;s real name is<strong> Antwan Patton<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested getting off a cruise ship in August when a K-9 dog alerted to drugs <strong>Big Boi<\/strong> was carrying. The substances included ecstasy, a cigarette roller with marijuana residue and the ecstasy ingredient MDMA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Big Boi<\/strong> had faced two felony drug charges. Prosecutors say if he remains drug-free after three months of testing, those charges will be dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlanta-based group <strong>OutKast<\/strong> has won six Grammys and made six platinum-plus albums, including\u00a0<em>Speakerboxxx\/The Love Below<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI &#8212; Grammy-winning OutKast rapper Big Boi has reached a deal on drug charges that allows him to avoid jail time. Big Boi appeared in a Miami courtroom Thursday as prosecutors outlined the deal that includes three months of drug testing, community service and $2,000 in donations to charities. The 36-year-old rapper&#8217;s real name is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}