
Nola.com Reports
Six people were arrested by the
New Orleans Police Department Monday after allegedly spray-painting graffiti on a building in the
French Quarter during an apparent protest over the incarceration of several local rap artists, according to police.
Off-duty police officers saw the suspects spray-painting "
Free Lil Wayne" on the side of a building in the 900 block of Conti Street around 9 p.m. and notified the
NOPD, according to spokesman
Janssen Valencia.
New Orleans born rap star
Dwayne "Lil Wayne" Carter, pleaded guilty in October to attempted weapons possession and expects to receive a one-year jail sentence. He is currently out on bond.
The men also placed a banner across Royal and Canal streets calling on authorities to release
Torrence "Lil Boosie" Hatch, a
Baton Rouge rapper who pleaded guilty in September to a marijuana possession charge and is currently in prison. The group also placed police barricades and metal garbage cans in the 100 block of Burgundy to halt traffic.
When officers arrived, the suspects fled but were apprehended nearby, Valencia said. The six subjects were charged with disturbing the peace, resisting arrest by flight and criminal damage to property.
Three of the suspects were listed as homeless, two were from
Monroe and the third from
Pennsylvania.

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