Waka Flocka back in jail
Perhaps it would be more newsworthy to report that Atlanta rapper Waka Flocka Flame avoided trouble with law enforcement.
Waka Flocka, the alias of Juaquin James Malphurs, turned himself in Monday to Henry County authorities. He's being held on $31,950 bond on charges including drug and weapons possession as well as criminal street gang activity and a probation violation, according to jail records.
It'll be Malphurs' second stint in jail this year. He was arrested in Houston County last March for leaving Georgia for a concert, which violated his probation from a 2006 incident. At the time he pleaded guilty to possession of a sawed-off shotgun and received four years probation, according to the Houston County Superior Court Clerk's office.
In December police arrested two people at Malphurs' Henry County home for possession of a minor amount of marijuana. The 24-year-old rapper was not home at the time.
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A native Atlantan, Boone joined the AJC staff in 2007. He quickly carved out a niche covering crime stories, assuming the public safety beat in 2014. He's covered some of the biggest trials this decade, from Hemy Neuman to Ross Harris to Chip Olsen, the latter of which was featured on Season 7 of the AJC's award-winning "Breakdown" podcast.
