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Friday, October 26, 2007
T.I. RELEASED ON BAIL
By Matthew Bigg
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Grammy Award-winning rapper T.I. was ordered released from prison on $3 million bond on Friday and will be allowed to remain at home under strict supervision in a weapons case that could see him jailed for up to 30 years.
Judge Alan Baverman said the rapper could stay at his home south of Atlanta on condition that he is monitored electronically and submits to random searches.
The judge said his visitors also must submit to searches and no more than three can visit at a time.
"You are going to be under home incarceration that is going to be governed by an active GPS (Global Positioning System) at your cost," Baverman told T.I., warning him not to have any contact with potential witnesses in the case.
The 27-year-old rapper last Friday pleaded not guilty to a trio of illegal weapons charges, each of which carries a potential sentence of 10 years in prison.
Agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested the rapper in Atlanta on October 13, the day he was due to have starred at the BET hip hop awards.
He had been nominated for nine awards, more than any other artist, and won two.
The agents said the arrest came as he took delivery of three machine guns and two silencers that a bodyguard purchased on his behalf. T.I., born Clifford Harris, was convicted of a drug offense in 1998 and is prohibited from owning or buying firearms.
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