{"id":43024,"date":"2025-08-05T20:15:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T20:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/05\/soulja-boy-wont-face-charge-from-d-a-after-arrest\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T20:15:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T20:15:22","slug":"soulja-boy-wont-face-charge-from-d-a-after-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/05\/soulja-boy-wont-face-charge-from-d-a-after-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Soulja Boy Won&#8217;t Face Charge from D.A. after Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\u201cA case was declined due to insufficient evidence,\u201d D.A. spokesman says<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tCalifornia prosecutors have decided not to file a felony case against \u201cCrank That\u201d rapper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/soulja-boy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_soulja-boy\" data-tag=\"soulja-boy\">Soulja Boy<\/a> following his arrest over the weekend on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a firearm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cA case was declined due to insufficient evidence,\u201d a spokesman with the Los Angeles County District Attorney\u2019s Office wrote in an email sent to <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tSoulja Boy, whose real name is DeAndre Cortez Way, was arrested early Sunday after a vehicle he was riding in was pulled over by Los Angeles police for a traffic stop. Way was booked on suspicion of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, an LAPD spokesman confirmed to <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. The spokesman did not have information on the reason for the traffic stop.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAccording to online jail records, Way remained in custody as of Tuesday morning. The rapper, 35, has a store for his SODMG clothing line on Melrose Avenue, near the location where he was arrested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWay made headlines in April when a jury awarded one of his former girlfriends <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/soulja-boy-civil-trial-verdict-sexual-assault-former-assistant-1235312850\/\">$4 million in damages<\/a> for her claims he assaulted, sexually battered, and harassed her. He previously\u00a0was convicted of carrying a loaded firearm\u00a0in a vehicle following his 2014 arrest in L.A.\u2019s San Fernando Valley.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/soulja-boy-arrest-gun-possession-prosecutor-declines-case-1235400868\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA case was declined due to insufficient evidence,\u201d D.A. spokesman says California prosecutors have decided not to file a felony case against \u201cCrank That\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":43025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}