Beanie Sigel Waives Preliminary Hearing On Drug & Gun Charges

Shackled and wearing prison blues, Sigel, born Dwight Grant, stood before Magisterial District Judge Edward Christie and waived his preliminary hearing on all charges. The portly but seemingly slimmed down defendant said little during the brief proceeding, but smiled when the judge wished him good luck.

 The 38-year-old rap artist was arrested early Aug. 29 after a traffic stop by Pennsylvania State Police on I-95, just south of the Philadelphia International Airport in Tinicum. He was a passenger in a car driven by 40-year-old Gerald Andrews of Philadelphia, who was also arrested.

Troopers Francis Pawlowski and James Sparenga pulled over a tan Ford Fusion on southbound I-95 at 3:14 a.m. after seeing the vehicle swerve in and out of traffic a number of times, according to the affidavit of probable cause. Andrews, 40, the driver, was asked to exit the vehicle. Sigel was asleep in the front seat at the time, the affidavit states.

Pawlowski asked Sigel to get out of the vehicle so he could explain to him why Andrews was being arrested. Sigel got out and, during a pat down search, a bottle of codeine syrup and approximately $4,500 in cash was discovered in a pocket of his camouflage cargo pants, according to the affidavit. He also allegedly had various pills wrapped in a plastic bag tucked inside of a cigarette pack in his pocket and was placed under arrest.

He last appeared in court in September to face gun and drug charges. Prosecutors requested a continuance in the proceedings against him so that lab results on the alleged drugs found on his person would be ready. This allowed for Sigel to be transferred from Delaware County prison to begin his two-year sentence for tax evasion.

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