BUCHAREST, Romania — American rapper Wiz Khalifa was sentenced by a court in Romania on Thursday to nine months in jail for drug possession, more than a year after he took part in a music festival in the Eastern European country.<\/p>\n
Khalifa was stopped by Romanian police in July 2024 after allegedly smoking cannabis on stage at the Beach, Please! Festival in Costinesti, a coastal resort in Constanta County. Prosecutors said the rapper, whose real name is Cameron Jibril Thomaz, was found in possession of more than 18 grams of cannabis, and that he consumed some on stage.<\/p>\n
The Constanta Court of Appeal handed down the sentence after Khalifa was convicted of \u201cpossession of dangerous drugs, without right, for personal consumption,\u201d according to Romania\u2019s national news agency, Agerpres. The decision is final.<\/p>\n
The decision came after a lower court in Constanta County in April issued Khalifa a criminal fine of 3,600 lei ($830) for \u201cillegal possession of dangerous drugs,\u201d but prosecutors appealed the court\u2019s decision and sought a higher sentence.<\/p>\n
Romania has some of the harsher drugs laws in Europe. Possession of cannabis for personal use is criminalized and can result in a prison sentence of between three months and two years, or a fine.<\/p>\n
It isn\u2019t clear whether Romanian authorities will seek to file an extradition request, since Khalifa is a U.S. citizen and doesn’t reside in Romania.<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old Pittsburgh rapper rose to prominence with his breakout mixtape \u201cKush + Orange Juice.\u201d On stage in Romania last summer, the popular rapper smoked a large, hand-rolled cigarette while singing his hit \u201cYoung, Wild & Free.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUCHAREST, Romania — American rapper Wiz Khalifa was sentenced by a court in Romania on Thursday to nine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[176797,966,2302,3071,14597,22048,88,22045,52208,793,4381,149,6149,2825,965],"class_list":["post-356777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-176797","tag-article","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-criminal-punishment","tag-drug-crimes","tag-entertainment","tag-extradition","tag-fairs-and-festivals","tag-general-news","tag-law-enforcement","tag-lifestyle","tag-marijuana","tag-prisons","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}