Protege Alfamega T.I. Arrested And Faces 10 Years In Prison

Cedric Zellars , a protege of the hip-hop star T.I., who once worked as a federal informant and testified against a heroin trafficker. for this a federal judge cut 1,5 year from a prison term Zellars was serving for weapons possession. But when T.I. heard of his snitch work for  the  government work, he announced that Zellars had been dropped from the Grand Hustle label. Zellars,  learned of his banishment while sitting in a Georgia jail cell.

The rapper was arrested April 29 2009 for gun and obstruction charges following a wild confrontation with the police. According to an Atlanta Police Department report, a copy of which you’ll find below, police found a 40 caliber gun in Zellars’s SUV, during a search of the vehicle following a traffic stop the handgun was loaded and had a round in the bullet chamber.

After cops discovered the gun, Cederic  became “combative and non-compliant” and sought to flee. ” Cops chased Cedric to a nearby parking garage, where he was struck with a police baton, again to no effect. In a bid to shake his pursuers, Cedric weaved through parked cars and climbed over the garage wall, jumping “25-30 feet to the ground.

The fall “resulted in an injury that appeared to be pieces of bone protruding from his ankle,” police  noted. Cedric Zellars, pictured in the mug shot above, was booked into a Fulton County jail, where he remained until Saturday when he made bail.

Zellars, a predicate felon, has yet to be indicted on the gun and obstruction charges. However, if the gun case were to be handled by federal prosecutors, Zellars could easily be facing more than 10+ years  in prison.