Miami Radio: WEDR Morning Host Busted On Cocaine Charges

Rapper and WEDR 99 JAMZ morning host Trick Daddy was arrested Saturday morning on a cocaine possession charge.

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According to the police report, a Miami-Dade officer responded to a report of a driver hitting signs and running red lights in a dark colored Range Rover around 3:20 a.m.

When the officer approached the driver’s side, he saw that the driver “appeared to be asleep behind the wheel.”

Once he was awakened by a knock on the window, the man, identified by his driver’s license as Maurice Samuel Young — Trick Daddy’s birth name — told the officer he had just left a club in Miami Gardens.

The arrest affidavit said that the 45-year-old Young told the officer he had had about five drinks hours earlier at the club and that he was dropping someone off and heading home.

The report said Young had slurred speech, bloodshot, watery and glassy eyes and that the officer smelled alcohol on his breath. He agreed to a field sobriety test, which he could not successfully complete, police said.

According to The Miami Herald, this isn’t his first encounter with South Florida authorities.

• In April 2014, Trick Daddy was arrested and charged in Miramar with possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, possession of cocaine, and driving with a suspended license, a Broward Sheriff’s Office task force said at the time.
• He was also arrested in 1991 on a cocaine possession charge, carrying a concealed firearm and violating probation, according to a CBS4 report. He served more than two years in prison six years before the release of his 1997 debut album, ‘Based on a True Story.”
• He was arrested in 2003 on assault charges.
• He was also arrested on assault charges in 2003 for threatening to kill a man over a street basketball game.