Nelly was arrested early Wednesday morning at the Hollywood Casino in Maryland Heights, Mo., a suburb of his hometown of St. Louis. According to online arrest records, the 49-year-old rapper was charged with possessing four pills of ecstasy, which is a controlled substance, and driving without insurance.
Nelly, whose eyes appear red in this mug shot, was arrested Wednesday morning at the Hollywood Casino in suburban St. Loouis. (Image: Maryland Heights Police Department)
A Missouri State Highway Patrol arrest report for Cornell Haynes Jr., Nelly’s birth name, shows he was pulled over around 4:45 a.m. for a bench warrant resulting from an outstanding traffic summons from 2018.
The “Hot in Here” rapper was booked at the Maryland Heights Police Department and has since been released.
Nelly is currently on a concert tour whose most recent date was July 29 in Elkhorn, Wisc. His tour resumes on Aug. 18 in Falcon Heights, Minn.
Previous Arrest
In October 2017, Nelly was arrested in Auburn, Wash. He was accused of sexually assaulting Monica Greene, a woman who called 911 claiming the crime happened on Nelly’s tour bus while it was parked outside an area Walmart.
Prosecutors dropped the criminal case, citing the alleged victim’s refusal to cooperate. However, Greene sued Nelly and her civil case was settled for an undisclosed amount.
Nelly is married to R&B star Ashanti. The Grammy Award-winning artists first dated in 2003, then broke up a decade later. They spent another decade apart before reuniting in September 2023 and are now expecting their first child together.
Ashanti has not posted to her Instagram account since April, when she announced the news of her pregnancy.
Hollywood Casino is owned by Penn National Gaming.
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