Celebrities Who Have Spent Time in Jail
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Tim Allen
Tim spent 2 years and 4 months in prison as he was caught with 1.4 pounds of Cocaine at Kalamazoo/Battle Creek airport and charged with drug trafficking.
Wesley Snipes
Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison for tax evasion, not filing over $17 million worth of income from 1999-2001. He also was charged filing a false claim. He served 2 years and 4 month of his sentence.
Ja Rule
Ja was arrested for tax evasion and a weapons charge. He served more than two and a half years in prison.
Lil Wayne
In 2007, weezy was caught for having marijuana and illegal weapons on his tour bus and was sentenced to five months in jail. Then in 2009 he was pleaded guilty for attempted criminal possession of a weapon. He served 1 year and 1 month in jail and two years of probation.
Lil' Kim
Kim was senteced to one year in prison for lying to a Federal grand jury about her and her friends' involvement in a 2001 shooting in Manhattan. She was convicted of three counts of conspiracy and one count of perjury, and served 1 year in jail.
T.I
T.I has spent a lot jail for weapons possession, drugs charges and probation violation. He served 7 months between May and December 2009, and 11 months between October 2010 and September 2011.
Robert Downey Jr.
In 1996 RDJ was arrested for possession of heroin, cocaine and an unloaded gun. While on parole, robert trespassed into a neighbour's property and under drug influence fell asleep in one of the beds. He was sentenced to three years' probation and compulsory drug testing, but missed drug testing which cost him more time in jail. He served four months in jail.
Mark Wahlberg
Mark was a notorious kid in his youth, and was in trouble many times. He was sentenced to 2 years in jail after being charged with attempted murder and assault when he attacked a middle aged Vietnamese man on the street with a large wooden stick.He served 45 days of his sentence.
50 Cent
In 1994, Jackson was arrested for helping to sell four vials of cocaine to an undercover police officer. Three weeks later, he was again arrested when police found heroin, ten ounces of crack cocaine, and a starter gun from his house. Fiddy was sentenced to three to nine years in prison, but managed to serve six months in a shock incarceration boot camp where he earned his GED.
Michelle Rodriguez
The actress was sentenced to 180 days in prison for violating probation following a DUI conviction in 2007. But she was released after serving only 18 days due to prison overcrowding.
Tim spent 2 years and 4 months in prison as he was caught with 1.4 pounds of Cocaine at Kalamazoo/Battle Creek airport and charged with drug trafficking.
Wesley Snipes
Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison for tax evasion, not filing over $17 million worth of income from 1999-2001. He also was charged filing a false claim. He served 2 years and 4 month of his sentence.
Ja Rule
Ja was arrested for tax evasion and a weapons charge. He served more than two and a half years in prison.
Lil Wayne
In 2007, weezy was caught for having marijuana and illegal weapons on his tour bus and was sentenced to five months in jail. Then in 2009 he was pleaded guilty for attempted criminal possession of a weapon. He served 1 year and 1 month in jail and two years of probation.
Lil' Kim
Kim was senteced to one year in prison for lying to a Federal grand jury about her and her friends' involvement in a 2001 shooting in Manhattan. She was convicted of three counts of conspiracy and one count of perjury, and served 1 year in jail.
T.I
T.I has spent a lot jail for weapons possession, drugs charges and probation violation. He served 7 months between May and December 2009, and 11 months between October 2010 and September 2011.
In 1996 RDJ was arrested for possession of heroin, cocaine and an unloaded gun. While on parole, robert trespassed into a neighbour's property and under drug influence fell asleep in one of the beds. He was sentenced to three years' probation and compulsory drug testing, but missed drug testing which cost him more time in jail. He served four months in jail.
Mark Wahlberg
Mark was a notorious kid in his youth, and was in trouble many times. He was sentenced to 2 years in jail after being charged with attempted murder and assault when he attacked a middle aged Vietnamese man on the street with a large wooden stick.He served 45 days of his sentence.
50 Cent
In 1994, Jackson was arrested for helping to sell four vials of cocaine to an undercover police officer. Three weeks later, he was again arrested when police found heroin, ten ounces of crack cocaine, and a starter gun from his house. Fiddy was sentenced to three to nine years in prison, but managed to serve six months in a shock incarceration boot camp where he earned his GED.
Michelle Rodriguez
The actress was sentenced to 180 days in prison for violating probation following a DUI conviction in 2007. But she was released after serving only 18 days due to prison overcrowding.
