Crime & Safety
Layzie Bone Arrested in Calabasas
The rapper was picked up early Tuesday morning from the Good Nite Inn for warrants stemming from two traffic violations.
Sheriff's deputies sent to a Calabasas inn before dawn today to quiet a party ended up arresting rapper "Layzie Bone'' of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony on warrants stemming from two traffic violations, including driving on a suspended license.
Deputies sent to the Good Nite Inn about 5:25 a.m. found the rapper, whose real name is Steven Howse, at the hotel and questioned him.
"When they contacted Mr. Howse in the hotel room, they determined he had a couple of warrants,'' Lt. Robert Wiard of the sheriff's Malibu-Lost Hills station said.
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Howse was freed on $80,000 bail about 8 a.m., Wiard said.
According to TMZ, Bone said he would ``take care'' of the warrants because he "had no choice.''