Waka Flocka Flame has been found not guilty of charges filed after a handgun was found in his carry-on bag during a security scan at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, the Associated Press reports.
The rapper, whose real name is Juaquin Malphurs, was arrested in October 2014 and charged with carrying a weapon in an unauthorized location. Defense attorney Drew Findling told AP that a Clayton County jury acquitted Waka in less than 30 minutes on Thursday (March 9) following a four-day trial.
Findling said the defense had maintained from the beginning that the whole incident was merely a mistake and that the Atlanta rapper had accidentally taken his wife’s bag to the airport without knowing the gun was inside.
