Ja Rule and Lil Wayne Arrested

UPDATE (7/24/07): Here is footage of Lil Wayne & Jah getting arrested.

"Gun possession was the case that they gave me.."

Ja Rule and Lil Wayne will be rapping this verse for some time.

The two were arrested Sunday on charges of illegally carrying .40-caliber handguns. The arrests came moments after Lil Wayne, real name Dewayne Carter, performed at a concert at the Beacon Theatre in Manhattan. It was not cleared if Ja Rule, real name Jeff Atkins, had performed.

According to NY Daily News, Officers spotted Carter and another man smoking marijuana by a tour bus near 61st Street and Columbus Avenue at about 11:30 p.m., police said. The officers took the two men into custody, finding the pistol. Both were charged with criminal possession of a weapon and marijuana.

Atkins was arrested about an hour earlier on West End Avenue. Police said he was in a luxury sedan that was going too fast. Officers stopped the car and arrested the occupants — Atkins, the driver and another man — and found the weapon, police said.