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Singer Akon has been arrested in the US. (AP)<\/p>\nUS hip-hop artist Akon was arrested last week in suburban Atlanta after he didn’t show up in court to face a ticket for driving with a suspended licence.<\/p>\n
Police records show Akon, whose legal name is Aliaune Thiam, was arrested Friday by police in Chamblee, just northeast of Atlanta.<\/p>\n
Akon was taken to the DeKalb County jail, where he was handed over to the Roswell police. <\/p>\n
Singer Akon has been arrested in the US. (AP)<\/p>\n
They in turn booked Thiam into another jail, after which he posted bail and was released the same day.<\/p>\n
Akon, who was born in the United States to Senegalese parents, rose to RnB fame after his 2004 debut album.<\/p>\n
The Grammy-nominated singer has performed on more than a dozen Top 10 hits, including Smack That, I Wanna Love You and Locked Up. <\/p>\n
He has also been active in philanthropic ventures in Africa, having lived in Senegal as a child.<\/p>\n
Representatives for Akon didn’t immediately respond to requests seeking comment.<\/p>\n
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Akon did not keep his court date. (Getty Images for BET)<\/p>\n
Police reports from Roswell show Akon, who lists an address in gated community in neighbouring Alpharetta, was found September 10 in a disabled Tesla Cybertruck on a busy street. \ufeff<\/p>\n
The police officer called for a tow truck.<\/p>\n
While he was waiting, the report states the officer checked the licence plate and found Akon had no valid auto insurance and had a suspended driver’s licence for failing to appear for a court hearing in January 2023.<\/p>\n
Police impounded the truck and cited Akon for driving without a valid licence, the report says, taking the licence he was carrying and releasing him. <\/p>\n
Police also found and seized an “illegal vape,” the report says.<\/p>\n
Chamblee police told local news outlets they responded to a business called Tint World on Friday when a traffic camera alerted them that the Cybertruck was present and was connected to an outstanding warrant.<\/p>\n
Akon is currently on tour in India. <\/p>\n
He performed in Delhi on Sunday, two days after his arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US hip-hop artist Akon was arrested last week in suburban Atlanta after he didn’t show up in court…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-280934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}