{"id":14904,"date":"2025-10-22T01:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T01:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/14904\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T01:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T01:23:08","slug":"memphis-rapper-finesse2tymes-arrested-in-texas-on-drug-charges-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/14904\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis rapper Finesse2tymes arrested in Texas on drug charges | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\">MEMPHIS, Tenn. &#8211; A Memphis rapper found himself behind bars in Texas on drug charges.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Public Safety in Harrison County, Texas, arrested Finesse2tymes, whose real name is Ricky Hampton, on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers charged him with several counts of possession of a controlled substance, including two counts of possessing less than a gram of a controlled substance and two counts of possessing between one and four grams of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also charged with possession of less than two ounces of marijuana and &#8220;possession of a dangerous drug,&#8221; a charge in Texas that refers to the possession of medication that requires a prescription, like Xanax or Vicodin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Along with the possession charges, police charged the Memphis rapper with having a prohibited substance in a correctional facility and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to jail records, Hampton was released on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Download the FOX13 Memphis app to receive alerts from breaking news in your neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13memphis.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trending stories:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEMPHIS, Tenn. &#8211; A Memphis rapper found himself behind bars in Texas on drug charges.\u00a0 The Department of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12094,12087,8077,12086,12089,11721,12093,12090,12091,3135,27,29,28,12092,12088],"class_list":{"0":"post-14904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-a-memphis-rapper","9":"tag-back-end","10":"tag-department-of-public-safety","11":"tag-finesse2tymes","12":"tag-harrison-county","13":"tag-memphis","14":"tag-memphis-rapper","15":"tag-rapper","16":"tag-ricky-hampton","17":"tag-tennessee","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-texas-headlines","20":"tag-texas-news","21":"tag-vicodin","22":"tag-xanax"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}