Rapper Wiz Khalifa has been sentenced to 9 months in jail in Romania on a drug possession cost.
Khalifa, 38, was sentenced Thursday, December 18, greater than a 12 months after he was charged with allegedly possessing 18 grams of hashish following a efficiency on the Seashore, Please! pageant within the coastal village of Costinesti in July 2024, the Related Press reported Thursday, citing Romania’s nationwide information company, Agerpres.
In keeping with AP, the rapper — actual identify Cameron Thomaz — was convicted of “possession of harmful medication, with out proper, for private consumption,”
In April, Khalifa was issued an $830 fantastic for “unlawful possession of harmful medication” by a decrease court docket in Constanta County, nevertheless, prosecutors appealed the court docket’s determination and sought a stricter sentence, per AP.
Us Weekly has reached out to Khalifa’s representatives for remark.
The “See You Once more” rapper was first charged in July 2024 following a headline efficiency at a music pageant. On the time, prosecutors alleged that he was present in possession of 18 grams of hashish and mentioned he consumed the drug on stage.
“Throughout a efficiency at a music pageant held within the resort of Costinesti, the accused was discovered to have possessed greater than 18 grams of hashish and to have consumed (on stage) one other amount within the type of a home made cigarette,” prosecutors with Romania’s Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) mentioned in a press release on the time, per information company Agence France Presse.
AFP reported that Khalifa was charged, however not held in custody.
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“Final nights present was wonderful. I didn’t imply any disrespect to the nation of Romania by lighting up on stage,” Khalifa mentioned in an X submit on the time. “They had been very respectful and let me go. I’ll be again quickly. However with no large ass joint subsequent time.”
Khalifa’s run-in with Romanian authorities got here the identical month that he and girlfriend Aimee Aguilar welcomed their first little one collectively.
“I gave delivery precisely every week in the past right this moment, so I’m every week postpartum,” Aguilar, 31, mentioned in a July 2024 TikTok video displaying off her post-partum physique. “That is what my abdomen appears like.”
“I ended up tearing. So, in the course of the labor and I pushed her out, I tore. I’ve stitches down there,” she mentioned. “So I believe I’m going to attend one other week or two earlier than I begin doing something strenuous on my physique.”
“To all my different mother girlies, you’ll get by this,” she added. “Your physique will do its factor in its time. Don’t ever examine your postpartum physique to anyone else.”
Khalifa additionally shares son Sebastian, 12, with ex-wife Amber Rose.
Throughout a January 2024 look on the “Name Her Daddy” podcast, the rapper spoke about turning up “stoned” at parent-teacher conferences for Sebastian.
“I’m pulling up stoned. They anticipate it,” the rapper quipped to host Alex Cooper. “They know what’s up. It’s not like again within the day [where] you’re thought of a foul mother or father when you smoke weed. I’m fairly certain my son smells like weed. I don’t know as a result of I can’t scent it, however I’m fairly certain he smells like pot.”
“I’m pulling up excessive as a result of I need them to attach with the true me. They’re not going to get a faux model of me or this made-up mother or father that society makes you suppose that you simply’re presupposed to be,” he mentioned. “I’m who I’m, and it’s not as a result of I’m a star or something.”
