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French police temporarily detained rapper Lil Baby on suspicion of transporting drugs and frisked NBA star James Harden during Paris Fashion Week

Jul 9, 2021, 20:03 IST
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Lil Baby (left) and James Harden arriving for dinner at the Bourse De Commerce Pinault Collection in Paris on July 7, 2021. Pierre Suu/GC Images
  • Paris police temporarily detained US rapper Lil Baby on suspicion of transporting drugs on Thursday.
  • Police found 20 grams of cannabis inside a car on a luxury shopping street, Le Parisien reported.
  • Video also shows James Harden being frisked by police. He was not detained.
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Paris police temporarily detained rapper Lil Baby on suspicion of carrying drugs and frisked the NBA star James Harden on Thursday, according to reports.

Lil Baby, real name Dominique Jones, and Harden were searched on Avenue Montaigne, a high-end shopping street, at 4:50 p.m. local time, Le Parisien reported. They were in town to attend Paris Fashion Week.

A video posted to social media Thursday showed Harden being frisked by an officer.

The police detained Lil Baby after searching a parked car that "wafted a smell of cannabis," a police source told Agence France-Presse.

Police discovered 20 grams of cannabis in the glovebox, Le Parisien reported.

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Harden, who was not in the car, arrived on the scene and was then frisked by police, Le Parisien reported. He was not detained.

Lil Baby has since been released from custody and was handed a fine, the city prosecutor's office told Associated Press. It's unclear how much he was fined.

Insider has contacted the Paris Police Prefecture for comment.

Representatives for Universal Music Group, the parent company of Lil Baby's Motown Records label, and the Brooklyn Nets, Harden's team, did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment.

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