TI refused bail

Rapper TI appeared at the Federal Courthouse in Atlanta yesterday to face those previously report weapons charges, the arrest for which prevented the hip hop star from attending the BET Hip Hop Awards on Saturday night where he should have picked up two awards. As previously reported, he was arrested after police allegedly found three illegal firearms in his car, and then six more at his Atlanta home. Some of the guns were acquired through a bodyguard who, it seems, was actually working for the government. The rapper was reportedly arrested at an Atlanta shopping centre after attempting to buy another illegal weapon. All those reports are, we should add, a bit hazy, but we do know TI, real name Clifford Harris Jr, was refused bail, despite attempts by his legal people to secure it, and he is now due to reappear in court on Friday where a judge will decide how to proceed and whether bail should be offered before the proper trial can begin.